- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dao with shaped, broad blade and wooden handle bound with cane and decorated with tufts of dyed goat hair. [SM 04/07/2007]
- Long description
- Dao with shaped, broad blade and wooden handle bound with cane and decorated with tufts of dyed goat hair. The blade has a pointed and a square ended projection on the spine. This area is also decorated with stamped triangles. The handle is long and is bound with woven cane. The end of the handle is decorated with tufts of long red dyed goat hair. [SM 04/07/2007]
- Cultural groups
- Konyak Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa by 1904
- Date collected
- circa 1904
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1930
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Cane Plant, Material Goat Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Stamped, Process Basketry, Process Bound, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 141 mm, Length: max 610 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.17.5
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