Metal spike fitting into short wooden handle

Metal spike fitting into short wooden handle

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Metal spike fitting into short wooden handle
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Metal spike fitting into short wooden handle, 'el mikhray' in vernacular, used for insertion of setons, audenese, 1880-1925

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A652635
Materials:
iron, ? material
type:
spikes
credit:
Gayer-Anderson, R.G.