Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Steel
Measurements
330 mm (Length)39 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303819.1
Summary
A Somali knife, with separate sheath with Lord Egerton's number 510B. The knife with wooden hilt attached to single edged blade with copper rivets. Collected 1939. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia (now Djibouti) in 1939