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Description: | Knife or dagger with large very sharp obsidian blade, roughly triangular in section. The blade is gummed with resin to lightweight ovoid-section handle, which narrows to a point at end away from blade. Handle possibly made of clay-covered reed which is covered with red pigment. Design on handle has black, four-pointed star forming an eye motif, with a red, diamond-shaped centre and white lime infill.
Material: obsidian
Material: clay (?) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63139 | Go to resource |
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