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Object Number
988-18-50/12524
Display Title
Circumcision razor
Descriptions
Object Description
Circumcision razor
Inventory Description
Metal razor, flat, curved blade, looped handle.
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Baule?
- Guro?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Ivory Coast
Materials
Metal, Iron
Dimensions
Overall: 14 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm (5 1/2 x 7/8 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
988-18-50/12524
Provenance
Provenance
Unknown
(10/87-8/88)
Collector
Christopher B. Steiner
(10/87-8/88 - 12/6/88)
Donor
Christopher B. Steiner
(10/87-8/88 - 12/6/88)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 988-18-50/12479 | Circumcision razor |
Knife
|
Ivory Coast
| |
| 34-34-50/269.1 | Circumcision knife from men's bush school (iron) |
Knife
|
Liberia
| |
| 22-2-50/B3406 | "Maniga" = razor |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 37-77-50/2906 | Razor used to make poro marks (iron with wooden handle) |
Knife
|
Liberia
| |
| 08-25-50/73679 | Razor |
Knife
|
Kenya
| |
| 17-41-50/B1673 | Razor or knife and sheath |
Knife
|
Congo
| |
| 14-9-50/85432 | Razor and hair pin |
Knife
|
Africa
| |
| 17-41-50/B1684 | Razor or tatooing chisel |
Knife
|
Congo
| |
| 17-41-50/B1686 | Razor or tatooing chisel |
Knife
|
Congo
| |
| 37-126-50/3258 | Iron circumcision knife with wooden handle - kongu |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 37-126-50/3257 | Iron circumcision knife with wooden handle - kongu |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 13-24-60/84839 | Razor |
Knife
|
Kashmir
|