Throwing weapon
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Snakeskin
Measurements
610 mm (Length)95 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sudan
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303742
Summary
A Sudanese throwing weapon with wavy blade terminating in a stylised horses head, the blade incised with zig zag patterns and with antelope and fish. Snakeskin covered grip handle. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.