Surgical instrument, cataract retractor.

Collection type: Object
Description: Surgical instrument, cataract retractor.
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 Copper Metal
Dimensions: Length: max 77 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.76.134
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Handwritten manuscript: 'List of Specimens Aurès Mountains, Algeria 1914. [Added] Collected by M. W. Hilton-Simpson, 1913 - 14. Purch. 1914.' Entry, page 5: 'Surgical Instruments Various 11. Cataract Retractor; a flat strip of copper tapering to a sharp point at one end; point bent down to form hook; "handle" end curled round on itself to form loop. Shawia name "hemankashine" (=hook). Given by Si Tayeb ben 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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