Surgical instrument consisting of steel point hooked at end set into cylindrical handle
- Made:
- 1880-1910
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Surgical instrument consisting of steel point hooked at end set into cylindrical handle vernacular "el ifsha", used in operations for opening the vulva before marriage and child birth, Kordofan, Sudan, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652627
- type:
- probe
- credit:
- Gayer-Anderson, R.G.
