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Description: | Large sword with three deep channels down the blade; flexible. Plain cross hilt covered with snakeskin. Handle probably modern and engraved with quotations from the Koran. The scabbard is of snakeskin sewn up at the back. Probably originally two-handed. Used in Soudan, but probably old European.
Material: metal
Material: snakeskin
sword made in Arabia, (1910.15.191). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.25847 | Go to resource |
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