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Surgical instrument consisting of metal spike with bent tip and wooden handle which has been scorched, from Ankole, Uganda, 1880-1920 described on Museum records as a "medicine man's cautery"
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652638
- Materials:
- steel, ? material and wood
- type:
- cautery
- credit:
- Roscoe, J.
