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Description: | A tapering blade with circular and diagonal ornaments rudely engraved on it and an incised crocodile running down the centre. The hilt is rudely formed of rhinoceros horn, terminating in a crescent-shaped guard, used in Kordofan. The scabbard is of yellow crocodile skin and brown leather stamped in patterns.
Technique: engraving (printing process) (action)
Technique: incising
Technique: stamped
Material: metal
Material: rhinocerous horn
Material: crocodile skin
Material: leather
short sword made in Arabia, (1910.15.201). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.25933 | Go to resource |
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