Dagger And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1956
name: label: Collector
content: Charles Carroll
label: Collector
content: Rev. John M. Cooper
label: Donor Name
content: Catholic University Of America
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Once the property of Chares [sic, should be Charles] Carroll of Carrollton [Maryland], who brought it from Turkey and from whom it came to the University. Slightly recurved double-edged steel blade, 14 1/4" long, inlaid at back 3" gold in Arabic designs and writing. Set in simple black wooden handle. Leather covered wooden sheath, the sewing threads on the back wrapped in brass wire."
label: Notes
content: If the provenance information is correct, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, 1737 - 1832, was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of American independence from England. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and Confederation Congress and later as first United States Senator for Maryland, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Ottoman Turkish khanjar (dagger) of Kurdish shape. Ebony wood handle with a western Balkans blade damascened on both sides with gold koftgari.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Constantinople (Istanbul), Kurdistan (not certain) / Balkans, Western (not certain), Turkey (Türkiye)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turkish
label: Culture
content: Kurd (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 211312
label: USNM Number
content: E395731-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger / Sheath