M0001244: Ancient Hindu tongue scraper and finger knife

Date:: 19 August 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/11/76

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001167-M0001269WT/D/1/20/1/11
        M0001244: Ancient Hindu tongue scraper and finger knifeWT/D/1/20/1/11/76

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M0001244: Ancient Hindu tongue scraper and finger knife. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Ancient Hindu tongue scrapers and finger knife

Description

Image of two surgical instruments captioned with "Ancient Hindu" at header, and annotated with "Tongue Scraper" and "Finger Knife" underneath each illustration for comparison. Related image: M0001238

Publication/Creation

19 August 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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