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1965.1.24.1

Dagger [.1] with triangular blade and blunt tip, incised with lines, wit wooden handle ending in a ring and wound with brass and copper wire. There is a small hole in the blade. With wooden sheath [.2] covered with hide, also wound with brass wire. [El.B 6/6/2007]

1965.1.24.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Dagger [.1] with triangular blade and blunt tip, incised with lines, wit wooden handle ending in a ring and wound with brass and copper wire. There is a small hole in the blade. With wooden sheath [.2] covered with hide, also wound with brass wire. [El.B 6/6/2007]
Person
Field collector Richard Edward Dennett
PRM source Folk-Lore Society
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
By 1895
Acquisition information
Donated: 1965
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Copper Metal, Material Brass Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Forged (Metal), Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Wound, Process Perforated
Dimensions
Length: max 188 mm, Length: max 160 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1965.1.24.1 Accession number: 1965.1.24.2 Other numbers: D.1900.37 Other PRM accession number: 1965.1.24a Other PRM accession number: 1965.1.24b
Associated publications
For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see 'Hidden Charms: Writing On, Around, and About a Congo Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Sally Ayres, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 25 (2012), pp. 55-63. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 18 4 2013] For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see pages 12 (note 23), 29-30, 183 (note 185), 241-244, 308, of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). (Printouts of relevant pages in RDF.) [JC 7 8 2013]

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