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Description: | A knife and skewer attached to one another with a length of twisted fabric. The knife has a metal lanceolate blade and is bound at the base with vegetable fibre and red textile to form a handle. This is fastened with gum and decorated with yellow orchid fibre. Two pieces of a woven red textile are bound into this, which leads to the base of a long narrow wooden skewer, this too is fastened at the base with a small amount of plant fibre.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.146
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.146 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | knives (food processing & storage) skewers wood plant fibre knives iron textile Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-46934 | Go to resource |
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