Surgical instrument: one of a set of probes: [.5] long brass wire probe with very small spoon at end. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 17/1/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Surgical instrument: one of a set of probes: [.5] long brass wire probe with very small spoon at end. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 17/1/2005]
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 Brass Metal, Material Metal Wire, Process Beaten
Dimensions: Length: max 260 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.76.129.5
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 4: 'Surgical Instruments Various 6. Set of 5 probes in bamboo case; 1 straight pointed wire; 1 thick iron probe with flat curved end; 1 iron probe with needle eye at one end & flat hook at the other; 1 copper probe with spoon-shaped end; and 1 long brass wire probe with very small "spoon" at end. The "spoons" are simply beaten out of the copper or brass. Shawia given by Melkemi Si Bonbakr ben Belkassem of Taghout Sidi Brahim.' [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]

Search terms: Medicine, Surgical Instrument