Carved wooden sheath with leather sling for metal pick (missing) decorated with herringbone pattern
- Made:
- 1880-1910 in South Africa
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Carved wooden sheath with leather sling for metal pick (missing) decorated with herringbone pattern, used as a tobacco pipe cleaner(?) or for extracting thorns from the feet, Zulu tribe, South Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657860
- Materials:
- wood and leather, sling
- type:
- picks
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
