Large carved wooden enema funnel

Made:: 1880-1920

Large carved wooden enema funnel
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Large carved wooden enema funnel, goblet shaped vessel tapering to form tubular spout at apex, carved lugat side with card for suspension, roughly decorated, Congolese, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655969

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: height 266 mm
vessel: diameter 90 mm
spout, end: diameter 13 mm

type:: enema funnel

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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