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Digital Media Bank ID: 53963
Original Filename: r2778_276_d03.jpg
Description: A Tswana knife with a round ended, double edged blade.Knife and sheath, knife has a round ended, double edged blade. It has an ivory handle with a four-legged animal carved at the top. The wooden sheath has an ivory top with relief carvings of a tortoise, giraffe and other animal. The two halves of the sheath are fastened with bands of elephant hair.
Categories: Collections, Collections/ World Art  
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Credit: Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
Licence: All Rights Reserved
Caption: r2778_276_d03.jpg
Object or Artwork info
Type (of Object or Artwork): Weapons
Title (of Artwork / Object): Knife with sheath
Creator (of Artwork / Object): Unrecorded
Date Created (of Object / Artwork): Pre 1925
Description (Object or Artwork): Knife and sheath, knife has a round ended, double edged blade. It has an ivory handle with a four legged animal carved at the top. The wooden sheath has an ivory top with relief carvings of a tortoise, giraffe and other animal. The two halves of the sheath are fastened with bands of elephant hair.
Source (of Object / Artwork): Frederick William Lucas
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Other Keywords: Knife with sheath, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa, Early 20th Century, Frederick William Lucas, Tswana, Metal; Wood; Animal ivory; Animal hair; Animal sinew
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Media: Image
Size: 1.98 MB; 4000 x 3000 pixels; 339 x 254 mm (print at 300 DPI);
Orientation: Landscape
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Linked Accession no.: R2778/276; WA509023
Date Created: Fri Apr 11 14:20:00 BST 2014