knife-sheath;
smoking equipment(?)
- Museum number
- Af1939,07.3.b
- Description
-
Double leather sheath with leather loop at end.
For ceremonial smoking purposes?
- Dimensions
-
Length: 13 inches (With knife handle)
- Curator's comments
- Register 1939:
1-4 Blacksmith's tools, Tiv tribe, R. Katsina.
Register 1939 later addition:
"more probably ceremonial smoking equipment. WB F[agg]".
See: Af1939,07.4
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1939:
1-30,34,35 Collected by donor in northern Nigeria between 1909 and 1934.
Coll. 1911.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1939,07.3.b
