Sheath And 2 Knives
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Ottoman Turkish trousse set of two Persian kard daggers. Larger Kard dagger is mounted with correct oversized walrus ivory grip scales. Metal mounts are inlaid with gold koftgari in floral motifs. The ricasso of the watered wootz steel blade is overlaid with koftgari in traditional Persianate designs with a dove. The smaller knife appears to have bone scales and displays a less prominent watered pattern. The scabbard is Ottoman provincial work, likely eastern Anatolia and is mounted with chased and repoussed silver fittings decorated with Ottoman floral motifs.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Turkey (Türkiye), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turkish
label: Culture
content: Persian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E359951-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger / Sheath