Throwing weapon
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
750 mm (Length)70 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sudan
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303740
Summary
A Sudanese Bourbash or throwing weapon with scythe shaped blade and with single barb near the middle of the blade. The blade with incised linear pattern. Lord Egerton number 233C. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Bourbash or throwing iron made by the Hasamin tribe, Sudan 1929. 223C.