sword
- Museum number
- Af1961,22.2.a
- Description
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Register 1961:
Composite sword, manufactured steel blade, wooden? hilt covered with leather and bound in copper wire.
(group) Register 1961:
Composite sword (a), manufactured steel blade, wooden? hilt covered with leather and bound in copper wire, (b) leather scabbard on cloth baldric with tassels (c) Composite knife, iron blade & leather-bound hilt (d) leather sheath. (c)+(b) attached to (b)
- Dimensions
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Height: 68 centimetres (a)
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Height: 53.50 centimetres (b)
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Height: 21.10 centimetres (c)
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Height: 10.50 centimetres (d)
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Width: 3.80 centimetres (a)
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Width: 37.80 centimetres (b)
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Width: 3.50 centimetres (c)
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Width: 2.60 centimetres (d)
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Depth: 2 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 1.90 centimetres (c)
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Depth: 0.60 centimetres (d)
- Curator's comments
- Accompanies scabbard, knife and sheath Af1961,22.2b-d.
[Collection:] NORTHERN NIGERIA- bought by the donor, from a Muslim on the road between NARAGUTA and ZARIA (Northern Nigeria)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1987, Tower of London Armoury
- Acquisition date
- 1961
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on Af1961,22.1.a
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1961,22.2.a
