- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Short sword [.1] with hilt bound with string and covered with hide and hide sheath [.2] with attached hide belt. [SM 03/09/2007]
- Long description
- Short sword [.1] with hilt bound with string and covered with hide and hide sheath [.2] with attached hide belt. The blade is made of iron or steel and is leaf-shaped. The sheath is stitched together along the back with a copper alloy chape. The belt is attached through a hole in the front of the sheath. The ends of it are knotted. [SM 03/09/2007]
- Person
- 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 Hide Skin, Material String, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Iron Metal, Material Steel Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Covered, Process Stitched, Process Bound, Process Knotted, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Length: max 520 mm sheath, Length: max 656 mm total
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.158.1 Accession number: 1939.3.158.2
1939.3.158.1
Short sword [.1] with hilt bound with string and covered with hide and hide sheath [.2] with attached hide belt. [SM 03/09/2007]
1939.3.158.1
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