- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cauterizing instrument, metal blade with carved wooden handle. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 17/1/2005]
- Geographical reference
- North Eastern Algeria Aurès Mountains Djemora Menaa El Kantara
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1921
- Date collected
- By 1921
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1921
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 340 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.21.12
- 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
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