Inuit surgical knife
- Made:
- 1915-1938 in Canada and North America
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Knife, steel blade, bone handle, possibly used for circumcision
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Knife, steel blade, bone handle, possibly used for circumcision, Inuit peoples (originally recorded as 'Eskimo'), North America, 1915-1938. 'Circumcision is practiced by some tribes of Eskimos in the Mackenzie region of North America.'
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A616503a
- Materials:
- bone and steel (metal)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 13 mm x 98 mm x 20 mm, .019 kg
- type:
- knife
