1993.10.29.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Dagger [.1] with single edged steel blade and brass and glass handle. With leather sheath [.2] [SM 30/03/2007]

Long description

Dagger [.1] with single edged steel blade and brass and glass handle. With leather sheath [.2] The dagger handle is made of brass and decorated with inlaid a large area of red glass and red and blue glass dots on each side. The sheath is made of orange coloured leather with nine non-metallic rivets on the front forming an inverted triangle and a line and a white leather band beneath this. It has a white leather carrying or belt loop. The leather is stitched down the centre of the back with string. The front of the sheath has an incised and impressed design of crosshatching, lines and semi-circles. [SM 30/03/2007]

Geographical reference

China

Asia > Eastern Asia > China

Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang (Xinjiang Province) Kashgar (Kashi)

Person

Field collector Consuelo Maria Linares Rivas Allen

PRM source Peter Christopher Allen

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1993

Date collected

By 1993

Acquisition information

Donated: 25/02/1993

Materials and processes

Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Brass Metal, Material Steel Metal, Material Glass, Material String, Material Metal, Process Inlaid, Process Incised, Process Punched, Process Riveted, Process Forged (Metal), Process Stitched

Dimensions

Depth: max 24 mm sheath, Width: max 26 mm dagger, Length: max 36 mm sheath, Length: max 234 mm dagger, Depth: max 12 mm dagger

Object numbers

Accession number: 1993.10.29.1 Accession number: 1993.10.29.2

Search terms: Weapon, Dagger, Sheath