- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dao with triangular blade and bamboo handle bound with woven brass wire bands of red split cane and a fringe of red goat hair. [SM 05/07/2007]
- Long description
- The blade tip is square ended and wide. The goat hair is set in tufts into holes at one end of the handle. A band of plaited red split cane is attached above and below the woven brass wire. [SM 05/07/2007]
- Cultural groups
- Sümi Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1931
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Brass Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Animal Hair, Material Cane Plant, Material Pigment, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Basketry, Process Dyed, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Width: max 64 mm, Length: max 728 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.85.691
1923.85.691
Dao with triangular blade and bamboo handle bound with woven brass wire bands of red split cane and a fringe of red goat hair. [SM 05/07/2007]
1923.85.691
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.