Knife

Museum number:
5-8565
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2569
Description:
Knife, steel, double edged curved blade hafted onto carved wooden ribbed handle carved into two conversing arches into a stylized "X" around the cross of the "X" is half of a slipper, 29.9 cm. long.
Donor:
David Solomon and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Ethiopia; Addis Ababa (purch.)
Collector:
David Solomon
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
October 1969
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 5-8565, described as Knife, steel, double edged curved blade hafted onto carved wooden ribbed handle carved into two conversing arches into a stylized "X" around the cross of the "X" is half of a slipper, 29.9 cm. long.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 5-8565, described as Knife, steel, double edged curved blade hafted onto carved wooden ribbed handle carved into two conversing arches into a stylized "X" around the cross of the "X" is half of a slipper, 29.9 cm. long.

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