Carved wooden enema funnel

Made:: 1880-1920

Carved wooden enema funnel, maraccas-shaped
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Carved wooden enema funnel, maraccas-shaped. Squared along top tapering vessel forming tubular spout, lobate design from spout, Congolese, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655987

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: height 260 mm
vessel: diameter 68 mm
spout, end: diameter 9 mm

type:: enema funnel

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Carved wooden enema funnel

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