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Various Artifacts of Mineralogical Significance


Various Artifacts of Mineralogical Significance

Photo Copyright © 2009 John Cornish  - This image is copyrighted. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
Displayed by Bart Cannon at the 2008 Seattle Mineral Market. With his description as follows: “From left to right and top to bottom.

Percussion cross bit - sextant - mining engineer's altimeter

Carbide Lamp - Davy's Mining Safety Lamp - Incan Tumi - Carbide Lamp

Percussion replaceable cross bit - Same Davy's Lamp - Percussion Cross bit

Note that the Incan tumi is authentic. A real and confirmed arsenic bronze. These tools were used for the science and art of trephination. Cutting holes in the heads of the sick and possessed in order to release the demon inhabiting the patient's brain. Some Incan skulls show more than five healed trephinations, demonstrating that the procedure did not result in death. Probably 700 to 800 AD.”
Photograph by John Cornish, used with permission.


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