Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Aluminium, Steel
Measurements
280 mm (Length)52 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303823
Summary
A Somali knife, with separate sheath. Double edged steel blade with polised steel (aluminium?) hilt terminating in a decorated pommel. Collected by Lord Egerton 1936. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia, 1936