Knives and sheath

Museum number:
9-9075a-c
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9-9075a
Accession number:
Acc.2507
Description:
Knife and sheath; a) curving broad knife with inlaid rosette on one side of blade; wood handle with diamond-shaped bone inlay; b) small curved knife; c) sheath: leather over wood core; 2 pockets for smaller knives b) and missing one; Used almost universally in Bhutan; to cut wood, meat, kill game, fight; Bhutias do not (or did not) use firearms believing that the noise would disturb the spirits and possibly also bring rain. Small leather cord with object, 6/5/2012 AT.
Donor:
Frank Daybell
Collection place:
Bhutan
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Knives and sheath, accession number 9-9075a-c, described as Knife and sheath; a) curving broad knife with inlaid rosette on one side of blade; wood handle with diamond-shaped bone inlay; b) small curved knife; c) sheath: leather over wood core; 2 pockets for smaller knives b) and missing one; Used almost universally in Bhutan; to cut wood, meat, kill game, fight; Bhutias do not (or did not) use firearms believing that the noise would disturb the spirits and possibly also bring rain. Small leather cord with object, 6/5/2012 AT.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Knives and sheath, accession number 9-9075a-c, described as Knife and sheath; a) curving broad knife with inlaid rosette on one side of blade; wood handle with diamond-shaped bone inlay; b) small curved knife; c) sheath: leather over wood core; 2 pockets for smaller knives b) and missing one; Used almost universally in Bhutan; to cut wood, meat, kill game, fight; Bhutias do not (or did not) use firearms believing that the noise would disturb the spirits and possibly also bring rain. Small leather cord with object, 6/5/2012 AT.

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