Throwing weapon
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Steel
Measurements
400 mm (Length)60 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sudan
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303922
Summary
A steel weapon with heavily barbed blade and woven leather cover to the integral hilt, leather thong attached to pommel end of hilt. Possibly Sudanese, collected c.1937. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in c.1937.