Knife sheath
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather
Measurements
280 mm (Length)52 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303823.2
Summary
A Somali knife sheath, with separate knife. Leather sheath with incised and stictched decoration and with brass studs. 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