knife (general & multipurpose); knife sheath (sheath (general & multipurpose))

General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 2006.355
General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 2006.355

Knife, pichok, with a short, broad, pointed blade stamped ‘KOSON’, single edge. With a brass pommel and a hilt consisting of two bands of red plastic and one band of colourless plastic, and a bone hilt shaped with one indentation, topped with a blue plastic band and a colourless plastic band with a diamond-shaped metal panel, and a design of three circles and dots. With sheath of brown leather with impressed design of lines, diamonds and dots, and seven eyelets with brown rings. With a white leather band-loop, riveted together and bound on with a white leather strip.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2006.355
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 260 mm x 30 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
iron; bone; leather; copper alloy; plastic
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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