Object Number | 42-30-594A |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Arab |
Provenience | Sudan |
Section | African |
Materials | Iron | Ivory | Leather |
Description | Bluntly double-edged iron blade tapering to point; deeply incised decoration of double angled lines with circles at inner points and of semicircles, on each face. Tang inserted in cylindrical ivory grip with hollow disc end; ornamentation of bands and groups of incised and blackened annulets. |
Length | 43 cm |
Width | 3.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Morgan Wing on behalf of the Estate of Florence C. Whitney, 1942 |
Other Number | 179 - Collector Number |
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