- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceremonial brass sword.
- Long description
- Ceremonial brass sword. Curved rounded blade with incised hatching, cruciform brass guard, cross-hatched ivory grip and knobbed brass pommel.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Notched, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 545 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.15 PR Cat other PR nos: 1101 PR Cat other PR nos: 961
- Research and responses
Spring, 1993: 65 'Sabres, hwi, were used by high ranking members of the court and military heirarchy, though as with the Asante afenea and the Benin ada they may ultimately have been the property of the king. ... ' [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Ritual and Ceremonial, Sword, Ceremonial Object, Knife
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