Surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle in leather and reptile skin

Made:: 1880-1910 in Sudan

Surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle in leather and reptile skin, sheaf twisted leather loop for suspension, Kordofan, Sudan, 1880-1910

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652499

Materials:: steel, wood, sheaf, leather and skin, reptile

Measurements:: length 142 mm
blade: length 142 mm
with sheaf: length 220 mm
handle: width 53 mm
handle: thickness 32 mm

type:: surgical knife

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Surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle

Surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle, Kordofan, Sudan, 1880-1910

Measurements:: length 142 mm
blade: length 142 mm

Materials:: steel (metal) and wood (unidentified)

Object Number:: A652499/1

type:: surgical knife

Leather and reptile skin sheath for surgical knife

Leather and reptile skin, sheaf twisted leather loop for suspension, for surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle, Kordofan, Sudan, 1880-1910