Sceptre in the form of a chopping knife with decorated handle. [CW 18/11/99]

Collection type: Object
Description: Sceptre in the form of a chopping knife with decorated handle. [CW 18/11/99]
Long description: Sceptre in the form of a chopping knife with decorated handle. The sceptre has been cast using the lost wax method. It is decorated in bands imitating plaiting on the haft. The blade is perforated with a cross shape and decorated on both sides with circular designs and linear and zigzag designs made with short dashes. [SM (Verve) 23/09/2014]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Ogun State Abeokuta
Cultural groups: Yoruba
Person: Field collector George Chardin Denton; PRM source George Chardin Denton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1901
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Donated: 1901
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Process Lost Wax Cast, Process Decorated, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Width: max 82 mm, Length: max 502 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1901.32.11
Research and responses: There are other entries from a Captain and Mrs Denton and a Mrs Denton which might also be from George Chardin Denton [and his wife, actually called Jean Margaret Alan Denton, died 1900] but as Denton is not an uncommon name I have not added this possibility to the PRM source field for these entries, calling up Denton calls up the 70 relevant total entries [AP 19/11/2001]

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