- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife with leaf-shaped brass blade with incised patterns on both sides. Handle of softwood carved to represent a human figure surmounted by a cow’s head. [LM 04/07/2007]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1970
- Date collected
- By 1970
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1970
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 240 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1970.30.9
Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Figure, Knife, Animal Figure
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