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1945.9.76.1

Knife [.1] with two edged blade and horn and brass handle with hide sheath [.2] and attached carrying belt. [SM 15/06/2007]

1945.9.76.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Knife [.1] with two edged blade and horn and brass handle with hide sheath [.2] and attached carrying belt. [SM 15/06/2007]
Long description
Knife [.1] with two edged blade and horn and brass handle with hide sheath [.2] and attached carrying belt. The blade is not symmetrical, one edge curves slightly more sharply towards the tip. than the other It is decorated on both surfaces with an incised diamond pattern. The handle has a crossguard with a brass end and a butt with three brass projections. The central projection is longer with incised lines on it. The sheath is stitched along the edges and has a decorative pattern stitched onto the front. An embossed carrying belt is wrapped around the the sheath. It has an iron buckle. [SM 15/06/2007]
Cultural groups
Somali
Person
Field collector Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1934-1935
Date collected
By 1934 - 1935
Acquisition information
Donated: 1945
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Horn, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Brass Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Embossed, Process Stitched, Process Incised, Process Decorated
Dimensions
Length: max 343 mm, Width: max 49 mm, Length: max 200 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1945.9.76.1 Accession number: 1945.9.76.2
Research and responses

For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Knife, Sheath, Dagger

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