Wood and iron knife and sheath. The tanged iron
blade is set in a bone hilt carved as a quadruped. The wooden sheath has rawhide bands at top and bottom to hold the two parts together, and a bone whistle with incised crosshatching is attached by a rawhide strip.
S-9 Knife & Sheath
Object Number
JL-S-9
Artist
Date produced
Unknown
Attribution/location
Dimensions (cms)
17.9 x 2.4 x 10.3; Whistle: 16.5 x 2.8 x 0.9
Description
Provenance
Unknown
Additional information
Classification
Digital rights
Brenthurst Library