Short Sword & Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Feb 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: St Alban's Church
notes: label: Notes
content: Identification by Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Ottoman Turkish qama dagger. The grip is carved from a solid well aged piece of walrus tusk prominently displaying the secondary dentine mottled inner core of the tusk.The blade displays a complex cross section with a makers mark inlaid in gold in a hsort fuller running along the first fifth of the blade.The scabbard is chased and repoussed brass with animal designs likely from Eastern Anatolia or the Balkan region, Ottoman provincial work.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Turkey (Türkiye), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turkish
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 265876
label: USNM Number
content: E404241-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath