Knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Steel
Measurements
280 mm (Length)51 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303919
Summary
A Somali knife with separate sheath. Double edged steel blade, the hilt of polished steel (aluminium?) with three bands of brass decoration and terminating in a trident shaped brass pommel. Pale leather sheath decorated with darker leather strips and stitching. Collected 1936. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia, 1936