Surgical instrument case

Made:: 1890-1910 in Darfur

maker:: Hausa people

Surgical instrument case, soft leather bag
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Surgical instrument case, soft leather bag, roll-shaped with long triangular flap, decorated geometrical openwork patterns with cloth backing on front of flap, Hausa, Darfur, Sudan, Africa, 1890-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652652

Materials:: leather and cloth

Measurements:: length 270 mm
approx: diameter 85 mm
flap: length 285 mm
strap: length 4260 mm

type:: instrument case

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