- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Chopping knife with curved single-edged blade with curved barb on the spine and a wooden hilt. [SM 17/05/2007]
- Long description
- Chopping knife with curved single-edged blade with curved barb on the spine and a wooden hilt. The hilt is bound with four bands of undecorated ?silver. A fifth band is attached around the join between the hilt and blade. This is decorated with an incised floral design. The butt has a hollow cylindrical piece of bone attached around it. A section of this has broken off. [SM 17/05/2007]
- Cultural groups
- Malay
- Person
- Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson
- PRM source Herbert Christopher Robinson
- PRM source Perak and Selangor Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1914
- Date collected
- By 1914
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1914
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Bone, Material Silver Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 416 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1914.42.5
1914.42.5
Chopping knife with curved single-edged blade with curved barb on the spine and a wooden hilt. [SM 17/05/2007]
1914.42.5
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