- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dagger [.1] with strongly curved blade and rhinoceros horn handle and cloth-covered wooden sheath [.2] with silk embroidery. [SM 27/04/2007]
- Long description
- Dagger [.1] with strongly curved blade and rhinoceros horn handle and cloth-covered wooden sheath [.2] with silk embroidery. The dagger blade is double edged with a central ridge. The handle has a crutch-shaped pommel . The sheath is bound in black and ?brown fabric with red and white plaited silk. It has a leather belt attached via two copper alloy rings. The front of the belt is covered with red fabric and it has a buckle for attaching the belt around the wearer. [SM 27/04/2007]
- 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 Iron Metal, Material Rhino Horn Animal, Material Textile, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Woven, Process Embroidered, Process Stitched, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Length: max 291 mm dagger, Width: max 71 mm sword, Length: max 198 mm sheath, Width: max 118 mm sheath
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.240.1 Accession number: 1884.24.240.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 1141
- Research and responses
See Chris Spring, 1993: Chapter 6 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
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