Shark's tooth lancet

Made:: 1891-1930

Shark's tooth lancet, called ponga kiva' in vernacular
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Shark's tooth lancet, called "ponga kiva" in vernacular, used to remove interior large swellings, from Vaitupu, Ellice Islands, 1891-1930

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655857

Materials:: wood, tooth, shark and fibre, string

Measurements:: handle: length 195 mm
handle: diameter 5 mm
with blade: width 21 mm
mount: length 546 mm
mount: width 241 mm

type:: lancets

credit:: Kennedy, D.G.

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.

Shark's tooth lancet

Details

Related Objects

Iron instrument with flat shovel-like blade at one end and looped hook at other end

Small skin medicine man's bag, hung with chains

Circular cake of tobacco compressed in the form of a round loaf

Mammalian skin medicine man's bag

Necklace, shells and seed threaded on cotton cord with depilatory forceps attached

Amuletic bone with incised linear design originally attached to hand of Fatima