Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Steel, Wood
Measurements
270 mm (Length)40 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303827
Summary
A 'Djitruti' Somali (Djibouti) knife and sheath with Lord Egerton's number 509G. The knife with wooden hilt attached to double edged steel blade with copper rivets. Antelope skin sheath with copper wire and copper sheet decoration. Collected 1939. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia (now Djibouti) in 1939