Sword;Scabbard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Nov 1967
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Lila Chejokoff
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Caucasian shashqa for Ottoman Turkish market. The handle and scabbard mounts are chased silver inlaid with niello enamel. The workmanship indicates a Caucasian decorator working for a Turkish client as the designs are Ottoman Turkish. The blade is a 19th C. Hungarian trade blade with inscriptions on the ricasso on both sides, now worn away from polishing. The original belt is matching in design and has an inscription on one of the silver mounts. The pommel of the sword has an Arabic insciption in a niello roundel.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jul 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Caucasus, Georgia ? / Azerbaijan ? / Armenia ? / Russia? / Turkey (Türkiye) ?, Asia / Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Circassian
label: Culture
content: Hungarian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 275610
label: USNM Number
content: E409065-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath