- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Long slightly curved single-edge steel knife with steel handle and hilt. Also a pale brown leather sheath with a decorative pointed steel tip, and steel rim. [JP 27/8/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Burman
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1924
- Date collected
- By 1924
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2004
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Steel Metal, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length 1470 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.141.2.1 Accession number: 2004.141.2.2
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