Knife (Jambiya)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1961
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John O. La Gorce
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Arab knife. Double edged curved blade, with incised decoration coming down from hilt of brass, elaboratly decorated shaped with crown at top narrowing and then spreading at blade. Scabbard decorated brass (consult Stone, 310-314)".
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: A 19th C. Arabian wahhabite jambiya dagger from central Saudi Arabia. This example is mounted in silver with chiseled designs.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Nov 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Saudi Arabia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 229198
label: USNM Number
content: E398873-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife / Sheath