Knife belt
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Leather
Measurements
890 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304632.3
Summary
A Somali knife belt, with separate knife and sheath. The leather sheath and buckled belt decorated with raised patterns and brass rivets. Lord Egerton number 493I. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.