Back scratcher and hair pin of horn

Made:: 1880-1910 in Sudan

Back scratcher and hair pin of horn
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Back scratcher and hair pin of horn, curving point and trumpet-shaped finial, Nilotic Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A651191

Materials:: horn

Measurements:: length 474 mm
finial: width 17 mm
finial: depth 13 mm

type:: back scratchers

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Back scratcher and hair pin of horn

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