Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Ivory, Steel
Measurements
240 mm (Length)45 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303918
Summary
A Somali knife and separate sheath. Double edged steel blade with a hilt in bands of steel (aluminium?), ebony, ivory and brass terminating in a brass pommel. Collected 1937. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia, 1937