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1902.88.20.1

Knife [.1] with leaf-shaped blade and wooden handle covered with copper alloy and incised with straight and curved lines. With sheath [.2], also covered with copper alloy and incised. [El.B 1/6/2007]


1902.88.20.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Knife [.1] with leaf-shaped blade and wooden handle covered with copper alloy and incised with straight and curved lines. With sheath [.2], also covered with copper alloy and incised. [El.B 1/6/2007]
Geographical reference
Pattani [Patani] Sumatra Sumatera
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1902
Date collected
1901 - 1902
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1902
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Steel Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal), Process Covered, Process Incised
Dimensions
Length: max 410 mm, Length: max 320 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1902.88.20.1 Accession number: 1902.88.20.2
Research and responses

Thomas Nelson Annandale and Herbert Christopher Robinson undertook an expedition to Perak and the [then] Siamese Malay states in 1901-1902, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. The results of this expedition were published in Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, published in London by Longmans, Green in four parts between 1903 and 1907. [SHD 17/5/2001]

Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Knife, Sheath, Dagger