Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum

1901.25.7.2

Wooden sheath for a sword [1901.25.7 .1] with a belt with pompoms. [El.B 19/2/2007]


1901.25.7.2

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

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.

Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden sheath for a sword [1901.25.7 .1] with a belt with pompoms. [El.B 19/2/2007]
Long description
Wooden sheath of two halves, curved, bound together with string, wire and plaited cane, with a belt of part woven, part plaited yellow, pink and blue cotton yarn, with a bunch of multicoloured wool pompoms at each end. Where it is attached to the sheath it forms a loop covered with black textile. [El.B 19/2/2007]
Geographical reference
Borneo
Cultural groups
Malay
Melanau
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1901
Date collected
By 1901
Acquisition information
Donated: 07/1901 Loaned: 11/1901, uncertain
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material String, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Material Textile, Material Metal Wire, Material Cane Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Plaited
Dimensions
Length: max 735 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1901.25.7.2

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Sword, Sheath