Surgical instrument consisting of spike with flattened tip fixed into hide covered wooden handle
- Made:
- 1870-1920
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Surgical instrument consisting of spike with flattened tip fixed into hide covered wooden handle, Algerian, 1870-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652560
- Materials:
- steel, ? material, wood and hide
- Measurements:
-
length 146 mm
blade: length 52 mm
handle: width 24 mm
- type:
- spikes