Knife sheath
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Leather
Measurements
375 mm (Length)64 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303817.2
Summary
A Somali knife sheath, with separate knife. Single edged steel blade curved blade attached to the wooden hilt with copper rivet and the grip bound with copper wire. Hide sheath with leather strap decorated with copper wire and copper sheet band. coolected 1937. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia, 1937