Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Aluminium, Bone, Brass, Steel
Measurements
293 mm (Length)53 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303824.1
Summary
A Somali knife, with separate sheath. Double edged steel blade, the hilt decorated with bands of bone and polished steel and aluminium, brass pommel. Collected 1936. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia in 1936