Small steel knife/sickle reputedly for cutting grass

Made:
1871-1910 in Sudan
maker:
Shilluk people
Small steel knife/sickle reputedly for cutting grass

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Small steel knife/sickle reputedly for cutting grass
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Small steel knife/sickle reputedly for cutting grass, hooked blade, with large teeth, Shilluck tribe, Sudan, Africa, 1871-1910

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A653313
Materials:
steel and rope
type:
sickles