- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife of black horn with curved pointed blade, handle perforated for grip, with ring and dot ornament, all carved in one piece. [El.B 14/3/2007]
- 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 Animal Horn, Process Incised, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 330 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.159 PR Cat other PR nos: 1203
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