Knife Sheath

83-26-15B

From: Sudan | Southern Sudan

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 83-26-15B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Shilluk
Provenience Sudan | Southern Sudan
Section African
Materials Leather | Copper
Description

Leather sheath with braided leather looped handles with knob terminals. ?Leather? collar is bounded with single cooper wire. Sheath body is laced together on one face. Other face is decorated with raised medial and lateral ridges, between which run rows of punched decoration.

Length 15.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of John B. Moore, 1983

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