Knife
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1927
Materials
Steel, Wood
Measurements
315 mm (Length)80 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sudan
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303955
Summary
A Sudanese knife with Lord Egerton's number 191D, Carved and shaped wooden hilt and tapering steel blade. Collected 1927. Associated label. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Sudan in 1927.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Soudan knife Abbukh wood. El Geri Nr Roseires. 191D.