dagger;
sheath
- Museum number
- Af2003,12.1.a-b
- Description
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Curved dagger of forged iron and carved wood and red leather sheath with tooling. The dagger has an elaborate, four-pointed hilt.
- Production date
- 20thC(mid)
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 centimetres (a)
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Height: 20 centimetres (b)
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Width: 10.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 4 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 1 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good - but blade fast in sheath.
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Acquisition notes
- Af2003,12.1 to 3 were given by Mrs Janet Ahmad. They had been collected by her father in Eritrea (no.1) or the Nuba Mountains (nos.2 and 3) in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af2003,12.1.a-b