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Description: | Thick near triangular beaten iron blade with dipped & step cross-section, the dip being on opposite sides on opposite faces. blade tapers to thin rounded point. incurving excised section between blade and round shouldered barbs of ovoid cross-section. rectangular cross-section tang fitting into wood shaft with plain iron ring at shaftment. near cylindrical short faceted wood shaft, wood light and pale but varnished. shaft probably cut down. a horizontal deep groove is cut at butt end of shaft round which is knotted a cotton string carring loop, knotted in two other places as well.
Material: metal, iron
Material: wood
Material: cotton | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.61575 | Go to resource |
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