Bone blade lashed to carved wooden handle

Made:: New Zealand

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Bone blade lashed to carved wooden handle, Maori, New Zealand
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Bone blade lashed to carved wooden handle, Maori, New Zealand

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A642974

Materials:: wood, bone and cord

type:: tattooing chisels

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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