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