- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Horn handled knife with leather covered sheath.
- 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 Metal, Material Animal Horn, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Stitched, Process Riveted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 162 mm, Length: max 246 mm, Length: max 285 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.159.1 Accession number: 1939.3.159.2
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