Cane and brass ear lobe distender from South Ameri

Made:: 1830-1920

SMG00167647
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Cane and brass ear lobe distender from South America (British Guiana) (?), 1830-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A669851

Materials:: cane and brass

Measurements:: cane: length 50 mm
base pendant: length 32 mm
sides of pendant: length 25 mm

type:: ear-distender

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Cane and brass ear lobe distender from South Ameri

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