Surgical instrument, for cauterization: rounded metal blade with blunt end, set into round wooden handle.

Collection type: Object
Description: Surgical instrument, for cauterization: rounded metal blade with blunt end, set into round wooden handle.
Geographical reference: Algeria
Africa > Northern Africa > Algeria; Aurès Mountains
Cultural groups: Chaouia Berber
Person: Field collector Melville William Hilton-Simpson; PRM source Melville William Hilton-Simpson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1914
Date collected: By 1914
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1914
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 300 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.76.115
Research and responses: Handwritten manuscript: 'List of Specimens Aurès Mountains, Algeria 1914. [Added] Collected by M. W. Hilton-Simpson, 1913 - 14. Purch. 1914.' Entry, page 2: 'Cautery Irons (10) 2. Cautery Iron; round blade in quite a new wooden handle; blunt point. Shawia name Akh'halel; given by Si Tayeb ben Si Ali, Baniane. [Drawing]' [MOB 7/11/2001]
Associated publications: See collectors file for Hilton-Simpson for a copy of Shawiya Berber Surgical Instruments in the Aures Mountains, 1913-1922, by John Kirkup (Curator of the Historical Instrument Collection, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London) to be published in the Congress Proceedings, September 1998, of the International Society for History of Medicine. [CF 8/1/2002]

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