Splints consisting of pieces of split cane originally linked by string

Made:: 1871-1910 in Sudan

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Splints consisting of pieces of split cane originally linked by string, from Sudan, Middle East, 1871-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657108

Materials:: cane, bamboo split and fibre, string

Measurements:: longest piece: length 280 mm
smallest piece: length 177 mm

type:: splints

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Splints consisting of pieces of split cane originally linked by string

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