Knife (Jambiya)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1961
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John O. La Gorce
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Ridged curved blade. Wood handle with brass and silver bands and flowers. Sheath brass, with silver filigree, highly decorated, with part of cloth cover retained on body side, shaped to almost a right angle. Also attached pendant and wire decorations. Consult: Stone, 310 - 314. Cleaned and restored: see restoration record no. 54 Nov 21, 1963".
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: Fine early 20th C. Omani khanjar dagger. This example has a rhinocerous horn handle with silver mounted scabbard mounted with an unusual design of bright turquoise colored metal foil under a crosshatched fish scale silver design. The blade is a plain steel type common to most Arabian khanjars.
label: Notes
content: Jambiya/Janbiya = Arabic word for a dagger, but it is generally used to describe a specific type of dagger with a short curved blade and a medial ridge. In Oman the janbiya is commonly referred to as a khanjar. (Source of this information: Wikipedia contributors, "Janbiya," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Janbiya&oldid=738545803 (accessed September 21, 2016).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Nov 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Arabia / Oman (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arab
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 229198
label: USNM Number
content: E398852-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife