Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Steel
Measurements
295 mm (Length)50 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303822.1
Summary
A Somali knife, with separate sheath. Double edged curved blade with ebony and polished steel (aluminium?) hilt terminating in a polished brass pommel. Collected 1937. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia, 1937.