Dagger
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1930
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Emeline W. Kennan
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: Mid 19th C. Caucasian kindjal from Circassia. The pierced work of the scabbard and the decorative motifs are Circassian. The blade is likely Ottoman Turkish and made of, wootz, watered steel, and is forged with an armor piercing tip. The scabbard and handle are formed of silver inlaid with niello enamel and pierced with red textile cloth underneath. The obverse of the scabbard has "Kavkaz" written in Cyrillic, a typical inscription found on kindjals produced for the influx of Imperial Russian adminstrators, soldiers and merchants who came into the Caucasus following the subjugation of the region in the 1850s
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Circassia, Caucasus, North, Russia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Circassian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 109552
label: USNM Number
content: E276706-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger