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Combined tweezers and lancet, made of steel. from Kordofan, Sudan, 1850-1908
This instrument (samandia) was used for all minor operations, such as bloodletting, scarring, opening abscesses, removing thorns etc. It was frequently carried in the sheath of a Kordofan knife.
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652642
- Materials:
- steel
- type:
- tweezers
- credit:
- Gayer-Anderson, R.G.
