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Hearst Museum object titled Dagger and sheath, accession number 9-14670a,b, described as Dagger and sheath; (a) dagger: blade (steel) has standing camel engraved on one side, maade from old car spring; haft of mt. goat horn bound in copper and brass; 1: 29.1cm; (b) sheath: silver-colored metal with curvilinear punctate designs on one side, loop for belt soldered on back side 18.5cm. Innumerable uses: anything from stabbing people to cutting ropes or opening tin cans. Used by men. Every man wears one at all times. Salim, the maker, is one of the two men in the tribe who are expert knife makers. He is also "internationally famous as a scultptor." Camel on blade is "alas, highly uyntypical feature of the knife was added for my benefit.Otherwise the dagger is just like any other good quality dagger made by Salim for a Bedouin customer." Cost in US dollars: $35. Conservation: treated w/ DDT in alcohol May 1978.

Hearst Museum object titled Dagger and sheath, accession number 9-14670a,b, described as Dagger and sheath; (a) dagger: blade (steel) has standing camel engraved on one side, maade from old car spring; haft of mt. goat horn bound in copper and brass; 1: 29.1cm; (b) sheath: silver-colored metal with curvilinear punctate designs on one side, loop for belt soldered on back side 18.5cm. Innumerable uses: anything from stabbing people to cutting ropes or opening tin cans. Used by men. Every man wears one at all times. Salim, the maker, is one of the two men in the tribe who are expert knife makers. He is also "internationally famous as a scultptor." Camel on blade is "alas, highly uyntypical feature of the knife was added for my benefit.Otherwise the dagger is just like any other good quality dagger made by Salim for a Bedouin customer." Cost in US dollars: $35. Conservation: treated w/ DDT in alcohol May 1978.

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