Dagger
51-4-67A
From: East Tibet | Sikang
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 51-4-67A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tibetan | Mongolian |
| Provenience | East Tibet | Sikang |
| Date Made | 15th Century - 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Steel | Bone | Yak Horn | Iron |
| Technique | Embossed |
| Description | Dagger. Knife has single edged steel blade with prominent blood gutters; end of knife extended through handle which is white bone on one side, black yak horn on back; iron binding over end. Hilt form is non-Tibetan form. Embossed design is characteristically Mongolian. Blade maybe cut down from a bayonette, the bayonette being non-traditionally Asian such as European, Russian or Chinese military issue. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Robert R. Service, 1951 |
| Other Number | 132 - Other Number |
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