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Pitt Rivers Museum

1884.24.116

Yataghan with curved and grooved steel blade, finely incised patterns on each side. Bilobed horn grip. [LM 04/04/2007]

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1884.24.116

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Collection type
Object
Description
Yataghan with curved and grooved steel blade, finely incised patterns on each side. Bilobed horn grip. [LM 04/04/2007]
Long description
Yataghan with curved and grooved steel blade, finely incised patterns on each side. Bilobed horn grip. Blade and grip are decorated with sheets of repoussé ?silver-copper alloy with leaf pattern; 3 square knobs of same metal on grip. [LM 04/04/2007]
Geographical reference
Unknown
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1874 Archaeological period: Medieval, uncertain
Date collected
?By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Steel Metal, Material Animal Horn, Material Silver Metal, Material Copper Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Incised, Process Repoussé
Dimensions
Length: max 720 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.24.116 Other numbers: XIII HB PR Cat other PR nos: 1241
Research and responses

Possibly collected by Pitt Rivers during his service in the Crimea War [1853-56] in 1854 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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