Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Mar 1946
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Mary L. Frederick
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Heavy, slightly curved, single-edged steel blade with groove naer [sic, should be "near"] the back, mounted on a flat piece of brass, covered on each side with eleborately carved of ivory for the handle, surmounted at the end with an incised peice of sheet silver to form the end of the handle. Broad grooved wooden sheath covered over the back with a sheet of copper."
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Sri Lankan Piha Kaetta dagger. Finely carved elephant ivory grips of vinous form, with the original wooden scabbard. Blade is brass overlaid at the forte (part nearest the handle) as is usual.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Sep 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sri Lanka, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sri Lankan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 172617
label: USNM Number
content: E383983-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife / Sheath