Curved steel circumcision knife with handle bound with metal strip

Made:: 1880-1920 in Sudan

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Curved steel circumcision knife with handle bound with metal strip, probably Sudanese, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652613

Materials:: steel and wood

Measurements:: overall: 12 mm x 189 mm x 52 mm, .032 kg

type:: circumcision knife

credit:: Pratt

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Curved steel circumcision knife with handle bound with metal strip

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