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Knife Sheath

Native NameMiid Hlaem
Object Number:82-7-175.2
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Thai
Isaan
Provenience: Thailand
Baan Pluoei
Date Made: ca. 1971
Early Date: 1966
Late Date: 1976
Section:Asian
Materials:Rattan
Length: 54 cm
Outside Diameter:3 cm
Credit Line:Thai-Lao Ethnographic Expedition, Joyce C. White, 1981
Other Number:071 - Other Number

Description

Long blade (.1) with plain wooden handle. Sheath (.2) is made of a collection of bamboo strips bound together at top by interweaving of rattan strips. Top flares out due to rattan strips.

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