Crudely chipped flint circumcision knife
- Made:
- 100-1500
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Crudely chipped flint circumcision knife, fairly early, probably only used once, then thrown away after each operation, Tunisian, 100-1500
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658435
- Materials:
- flint
- Measurements:
-
overall: 9 mm x 53 mm x 25 mm, .008 kg
- type:
- circumcision knife
- credit:
- Pratt
