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1884.24.168.1

Small knife, single-edged, down-curving blade with ivory and bone handle carved on sides with figures of deities, brass ferrule embossed, wooden sheath partly lacquered

1884.24.168.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Small knife, single-edged, down-curving blade with ivory and bone handle carved on sides with figures of deities, brass ferrule embossed, wooden sheath partly lacquered
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1874
Date collected
?By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Metal, Material Animal Bone, Material Brass Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Lacquer Varnish, Process Embossed, Process Carved, Process Lacquered Varnished
Dimensions
Length: max 230 mm, Length: max 148 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.24.168.1 Accession number: 1884.24.168.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 1149
Research and responses

'Deities' are nats, which are a heterogeneous group of spirits [SD]

Search terms: Weapon, Figure, Tool, Religion, Knife, Sheath

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