Surgical instrument consisting of metal spike with bent tip and wooden handle which has been scorched, from Ankole, Uganda, 1880-1920 R card describes object as "medicine man's cautery"
Surgical instrument consisting of metal spike with bent tip and wooden handle which has been scorched, from Ankole, Uganda, described on Museum records as a "medicine man's cautery"
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652638
- Materials:
- steel, ? material and wood
- type:
- cautery
- credit:
- Roscoe, J.