knife-sheath
- Museum number
- Af1999,16.22.b
- Description
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Sheath (with knife) ("kube"); made of leather; triangular tube of red leather, with dots tooled on front, end painted with black checkerboard design, decorated with stripes of yellow and green leather; strip of red leather sewn on open end to rest behind hilt, with strip of red leather sewn on perpendicular to wrap around hilt; strip of red leather sewn near open end of sheath to thread through belt loop; "A842 L12 172" written on inside of strip.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Length: 36 centimetres
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Width: 9.50 centimetres
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Depth: 8.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Heathcote, David. "A Leatherworker of Zaria City. " In: The Nigerian Field 1974;34(3):99-117.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for entire collection.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1999,16.22.b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 172
