Iron dental elevator for extraction of lower incisors

Made:: 1890-1920 in Sudan

Iron dental elevator for extraction of lower incisors
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Iron dental elevator for extraction of lower incisors, awl-shaped instrument tanged in to wooden handle bound with string, mounted on glass backing frame, Buran tribe, southern Sudan, Africa, 1890-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655913

Materials:: iron, wood, handle, frame, glass, frame, paper and frame, tape

Measurements:: length 235 mm
handle: length 135 mm
diameter 6 mm
handle: diameter 18 mm

type:: dental elevator

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Iron dental elevator for extraction of lower incisors

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