- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife with wooden handle, bone foreshaft and iron tip. [El.B 25/04/2012]
- Long description
- Knife with wooden handle, bone foreshaft and iron tip. The bone and the iron tip are attached with ?sinew. At the joint of the wood and the bone is a ?leather sleeve. The handle is perforated at the butt. [El.B 25/04/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Francis Harding
- Field collector HMS Griper
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: On or before 1824
- Date collected
- ?On or before 1824
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 11/03/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Bone, Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Animal Sinew, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 217 mm, Depth: max 7 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.763 Other numbers: 326 763
1886.1.763
Knife with wooden handle, bone foreshaft and iron tip. [El.B 25/04/2012]
1886.1.763
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