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Surgical Instruments. Kordofan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

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Description: Surgical instruments, Kordofan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Collection
Surgical Instruments. Kordofan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

Sudanese Nuba shoe pattens. Photograph, ca. 1920.

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Description: Sudanese Nuba shoes moulds. Pattens. Photo, circa 1920.
Sudanese Nuba shoe pattens. Photograph, ca. 1920.

Wooden prayer board or 'lohn', Sudan, 1801-1910.

Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Islamic holy men, known as fikas, write phrases from the Quran (the holy book of Islam) or mystic inscriptions on wooden boards, known as lohn or prayer boards. When the ink is dry, it is washed from the board and drunk or applied to the body to cure illness. This practice is known as El Mahara.
Wooden prayer board or 'lohn', Sudan, 1801-1910.

Spouted vessels and bowl from grave of twin babies at Jebel Moya, Sudan. Excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome.

Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Spouted vessels and bowl from grave of twin babies at Jebel Moya, Sudan. Excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome.

Combs, of various origins.

Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Combs, Maori, New Zeland; Admiralty Islands; North Solomon Islands; Tonga Isalnds, Dyak, N. Borneo; Burrard Islet, British Columbia; Southern Nigeria; Sudan. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
Combs, of various origins.

The Wellcome Centenary Exhibition, 1953.

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Description: General view of the Wellcome Centenary Exhibition- The Life and Work of Sir Henry Wellcome. Section XI. Archaeological interests. Excavations in the Sudan- Jebel Moya.
The Wellcome Centenary Exhibition, 1953.

Neolithic infant feeding cup, Africa, 1000 BCE-400 BCE.

Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Infants sucked liquids through the conical spout of this simple earthenware feeding cup. It was excavated in 1912 from the grave of twin children in Jebel Moya, Sudan, where Henry Wellcome funded and led a major archaeological expedition.
Neolithic infant feeding cup, Africa, 1000 BCE-400 BCE.
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