Knife sheath
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Wood
Measurements
240 mm (Length)45 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303918.2
Summary
A sheath for a Somali knife. Dark leather sheath with incised and stitched decoration. 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