Three surgical knives, from the Masia peoples of East Africa, c. 1880-1920.

Made:: 1880-1920 in Kenya and Tanzania

Surgical knife, steel blade set in wooden handle
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Surgical knife, steel blade set in wooden handle, with hide sheath and loop for suspension, Masai, East Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A651073

Materials:: steel, wood and hide

Measurements:: knife: length 283 mm
sheath: length 194 mm
blade: width 18 mm
handle, max: width 24 mm
sheath: width 23 mm

type:: knives and surgical instruments

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Three surgical knives, from the Masia peoples of East Africa, c. 1880-1920.

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