- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fish-skin covered sheath for sword 1884.24.37 .1. [LM 13/2/2007]
- Long description
- Fish-skin covered sheath for sword 1884.24.37 .1. Sheath is of wood covered with fish skin and attached to an iron ring bound with skin thongs. A wooden cylinder hangs from the ring by a brass link. [LM 13/2/2007]
- 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 Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Fish Skin, Material Brass Metal, Process Bound, Process Carved, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 550 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.37.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 1091
1884.24.37.2
Fish-skin covered sheath for sword 1884.24.37 .1. [LM 13/2/2007]
1884.24.37.2
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