57 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4786
Description:
Priest's knife Metal knife with oval handle with circles in it. Four flat circles and three texturized ones.
Donor:
Ann Yarwood Goldman
Collection place:
Southeast Asia
Culture or time period:
Hmong and Mien
Materials:
Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies and 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
September 30, 2011
Context of use:
Mien priest's ceremonial knife.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— height 25 centimeters and whole— width 4.5 centimeters