Object Number | P866 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Kenyah |
Provenience | Borneo | Sarawak |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Peel |
Description | Splint for broken finger. Slender, flat bamboo (?) sticks, originally bound together by strips of rattan peel into a flexible mat to be wrapped around broken finger. Now come apart, with sticks missing, eight pieces remain. "Splint for fractured bones" in Furness's Collection list. |
Credit Line | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898 |
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