Christian Sword (Shasqua)
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: Uncommon 19th C. Imperial Russian made shashka in the pattern of Volgograd and southern Russian Cossack shashkas. This example is indicative of typical Zlatoust factory or Tula factory work, with steel fittings in proto-Cossack style with a chased background and silver inlaid wire in naive Cossack style. The blade displays the profile of Imperial Russian, not Caucasian made, work and polished bright but with no marks other than Hungarian symbols. Blade is possibly 18th C. Hungarian. The sword can be dated to the period 1820-1850.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Jul 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Russia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Russian
label: Culture
content: Hungarian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 109552
label: USNM Number
content: E276690-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword