Grooved falculate steel razor with spiralling shaft probably from Northern Nigeria

Made:: 1870-1910

Grooved falculate steel razor with spiralling shaft probably
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Grooved falculate steel razor with spiralling shaft probably from Northern Nigeria, 1870-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652624

Materials:: steel and copper, wire

Measurements:: length 142 mm
max: width 47 mm

type:: razors

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Grooved falculate steel razor with spiralling shaft probably from Northern Nigeria

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