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Description: | There is a straight backed narrow knife with a steel blade that has been inland with silver, coloured metal. The top of the blade has had decorative plaited copper. There is also a plated copper and brass stylus with steel tip. Straight tapering eight sided with bulbous and decorated top. The wooden sheath has a sheet of silver around its top section, and there are two compartments, one each for the knife and stylus, accompanying label "Ceylon". Knife was used for cutting leaves of jalipat palm to from writing surface. Stylus for writing on same. | Subjects: | Ethnography | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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