Knife sheath
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather
Measurements
280 mm (Length)51 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303919.2
Summary
A sheath for a Somali knife. 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