- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sword [.1] with long narrow leaf-shaped blade and wooden handle bound with leather except the pommel. With leather-covered sheath [.2] with knob at the tip, with twisted plant fibre rope. [El.B 12/11/2007]
- Cultural groups
- Kamba
- Person
- Field collector F.S. Keen
- Field collector Frederick Stewart Keen
- PRM source F.S. Keen
- PRM source Frederick Stewart Keen
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1946
- Date collected
- By 1946
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1946
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Stitched, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 695 mm, Length: max 485 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1946.8.8.1 Accession number: 1946.8.8.2
1946.8.8.1
Sword [.1] with long narrow leaf-shaped blade and wooden handle bound with leather except the pommel. With leather-covered sheath [.2] with knob at the tip, with twisted plant fibre rope. [El.B 12/11/2007]
1946.8.8.1
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