Knife sheath
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Antelope skin, Copper
Measurements
291 mm (Length)38 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303828.2
Summary
A 'Djitruti' Somali (Djibouti) knife sheath, with separate knife, with Lord Egerton's number 509I. Antelope skin sheath with copper wire and sheet copper 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.