Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Copper, Steel
Measurements
457 mm (Length)60 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303825
Summary
A knife with double edged steel blade part of a set with a sheath (TAT/TH/F2/20/28; CMS No. 1303826). Shaped bone handle with terminal steel spike, and with copper band decoration. Collected 1936. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton, Somalia 1936.