Circumcision knife with black obsidian blade and w

Made:: 1871-1910

Circumcision knife with black obsidian blade and wooden handle painted red and decorated with incised barbed design inlaid with lime powder, from Admiralty Islands (?), 1871-1910

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Object Number:: A102297

Materials:: obsidian, wood

type:: circumcision knife

taxonomy:

furnishing and equipment
tools & equipment
surgical equipment
surgical instrument
circumcision equipment

status:: Loan: Wellcome Trust

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