Knife sheath
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Antelope skin, Copper, Wood
Measurements
330 mm (Length)39 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303819.2
Summary
A Somali sheath, with separate knife, with Lord Egerton's number 510B. Antelope skin sheath with copper wire and copper sheet decoration. 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