knife-sheath
- Museum number
- Af1961,22.2.d
- Description
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Register 1961:
Leather knife sheath.
- Curator's comments
- Accompanies sword, scabbard and knife Af1961,22.2a-c.
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)
[Collection:] NORTHERN NIGERIA- bought by the donor, from a Muslim on the road between NARAGUTA and ZAIA (Northern Nigeria) c. [Af1912,22 & 23] all collected before 1914.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1987, Tower of London Armoury
- Acquisition date
- 1961
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1961:
[Collection:] NORTHERN NIGERIA- bought by the donor, from a Muslim on the road between NARAGUTA and ZAIA (Northern Nigeria) c. [Af1912,22 & 23] all collected before 1914.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1961,22.2.d
