Brass tube for cauterizing the neck.

Collection type: Object
Description: Brass tube for cauterizing the neck.
Geographical reference: Algeria
Africa > Northern Africa > Algeria; Western Aurès Mountains Tilatou
Cultural groups: Chaouia Berber
Person: Field collector Melville William Hilton-Simpson; PRM source Melville William Hilton-Simpson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923
Date collected: 1922 - 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal
Dimensions: Length: max 265 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.33.41
Research and responses: See RDF for labels written by Hilton-Simpson for various objects in this collection. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/12/2004]
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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