- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory knife: blade and handle carved of one piece of ivory. Handle has design around edge of circles with dots in the centre, these are inlaid with a red coloured substance.
- Person
- Maker Pupils at donor's Mission School
- Field collector William Coleman Piercy
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source William Coleman Piercy
- PRM source Faith Piercy
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Pigment, Process Inlaid, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 243 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.155
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