dagger;
dagger-sheath
- Museum number
- 2012,6030.138.a-b
- Description
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Steel dagger (jambiya) with a cylindrical hilt made of bone or horn with silver pins and stamped floral decoration. With a wooden sheath covered in leather with incised decoration.
- Production date
- 1930s-1940s
- Dimensions
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Length: 27 centimetres
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Weight: 159 grammes
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Width: 6.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For similar examples see: Stephen Gracie (2010), 'Jambiya: Daggers from the Ancient Souqs of Yemen'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Acquisition notes
- This object is part of a large collection of items donated by Leila Ingrams in 2012 (2012,6030.1ff). Some were collected by her parents, Doreen and Harold Ingrams, between the 1920s-40s and others by Leila herself from the 1980s-2005 on the island of Zanzibar and in Hadramawt, Yemen.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 2012,6030.138.a-b