Surgical knife

Made:
1871-1920
Surgical knife, consisting of narrow barbed sting-ray spine

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Surgical knife, consisting of narrow barbed sting-ray spine
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Surgical knife, consisting of narrow barbed sting-ray spine, with pointed wooden haft, from Hawaii, 1871-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A222382
Materials:
sting-ray spine and wood
type:
knives
credit:
Glendining