Single pearl shell with serrated tip used for scarification

Made:
1881-1930
Single pearl shell with serrated tip used for scarification

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Single pearl shell with serrated tip used for scarification
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Single pearl shell with serrated tip used for scarification, from New Guinea (?), 1881-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655868
Materials:
shell, pearl and shell, lamellibranchiate
Measurements:
overall: 10 mm x 95 mm x 82 mm, .04 kg
type:
shells