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Description: | Taungthu / (Shan States) / Knives
Knife wtih thin double-edged and pointed blade, hafted into a cylindrical shaped wooden hilt that is bound with a narrow copper alloy band at the hafting and plaited fibre around the rest of its length.
Large brown card label tied on hilt:
Handwritten: `Taungthu (Shan States) Knives’
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 6.4.59/17i | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood plant fibre Pao iron War- and Peace-making knives (weapons: edged) copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-58439 | Go to resource |
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