- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sword or dagger [.1] with fluted, waisted, leaf-shaped blade and wooden grip with lozenge-shaped cross guard and spindle-end pommel. Flat hide-covered wooden sheath [.2] with broad leather carrying strap. [LM 02/07/2007]
- 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 Metal, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 600 mm, Width: max 120 mm, Length: max 775 mm, Width: max 260 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.196.1 Accession number: 1884.24.196.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 1093
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