Steel surgical knife with wooden handle and sheath bound with strips of animal gut
- maker:
- Shona people
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Steel surgical knife with wooden handle and sheath bound with strips of animal gut, sheath has lug for suspension, Mashona, South East Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658243
- Materials:
- steel, wood and gut, animal
- type:
- surgical knife
