Carved wooden enema funnel

Made:: 1880-1910 in Democratic Republic of Congo

Carved wooden enema funnel, elliptical vessel squared at top
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Carved wooden enema funnel, elliptical vessel squared at top, tapering to form tubular spout at apex, vessel incised with interlacing bands, Bakuba tribe, Congo, 1880-1120

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655991

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: height 187 mm
vessel: diameter 45 mm
spout, end: diameter 6 mm

type:: enema funnel

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Carved wooden enema funnel

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