Carved wooden enema funnel

Made:: 1880-1910 in Democratic Republic of Congo

Carved wooden enema funnel
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Carved wooden enema funnel, elliptical vessel gently tapering to tubular spout, curious additional channel in side leads to central spout, Bakuba tribe, Congolese, 1880-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655996

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: height 155 mm
vessel: diameter 55 mm
spout: diameter 14 mm

type:: enema funnel

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Carved wooden enema funnel

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