Wrist knife
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Steel
Measurements
145 mm (Length)110 mm (W)85 mm (Length)98 mm (W)
Place of origin
Kenya
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304005
Summary
One of five wrist knives from the Suk Tribe, Kenya. Crescent shaped blades with leather strips covering the blades. Collected 1936. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton, Kenya, 1936
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Wrist knives. Suk Natives. Kenya Colony.