Brass Knuckles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Of heavy brass, from a flat back extends an attached crescent with grooves for the four fingers inside. Extending from the flat back is a figurine head of crude casting, that does not appear to relate to other known India types, but the general construction seems to fit best here. - R. Elder (1972) It was once suggested that this was African, but it does not appear to be so. - Gordon Gibson (1963)".
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: An odd and early likely 18th C. and before cast brass knuckles, India. These follow a pattern of weapons that are held in the hand and fortify the fist with blades or metal with devastating effect in close quarters. This example may have been sharpened on the lunette edge and is cast with a visage on the small portruding circular piece which would be used as a puncturing part of the weapon.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360094-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hand Weapon