Crude circumcision knife made from stone flint with handle fashioned from vegetable matter
- Made:
- 1701-1890
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Crude circumcision knife made from stone flint with handle fashioned from vegetable matter, Australian aboriginal, c. 1800
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A610562
- Materials:
- stone (flint) and vegetable matter
- Measurements:
-
overall: 7 mm x 91 mm x 21 mm, .014 kg
- type:
- circumcision knife
