Sawfish
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304613
Summary
A small sawfish 'saw', or saw-like rostrum (snout) used by sawfish for detecting prey on the ocean floor and as a digging tool for extracting buried crustaceans. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.'
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958)