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Description: | Shaped with a crescent and point and inlaid with silverwork of floral patterns. The handle is of steel bound with snakeskin, leopard skin in the centre and bound round with leather so as to hang loosely round the wrist. Probably made in Soudan by Persian or Arab workmen.
Technique: inlay
Material: silver
Material: steel
Material: snakeskin
Material: leopard skin
Material: leather
axe made in Arabia, (1910.15.193). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.25898 | Go to resource |
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