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Description: | Item number 31 on Jeremy Keenan's item list. Meat knife called 'elmusi' in Tamahaq. Keenan acquired this object from Sidi Mohammed of the Kel Hirafok people. Price paid: 15 dinar. Keenan refers to fig 171 in Johannes Nicolaisen's 'Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg: with particular reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr' (Nicolaisen, 1963, p 237, fig 171). Manufactured by blacksmiths ('inadan').
Meat knife, decorated collar. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | Tuareg wood metal meat knives (knives (food processing & storage)) Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-66031 |
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