Knife "Kukri"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Col. J. A. Mendelson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Defense
notes: label: Notes
content: UNSHEATHED KNIFE, SUPPOSEDLY SINGLE EDGED, BUT EDGE QUITE BLUNT. CURVED LEAF-SHAPED BLADE, ENGRAVED OVERALL) WITH FLORAL DESIGNS PLUS ELEPHANTS ON ONE SIDE, RAMS ON THE OTHER. CURVED IRON PISTOL GRIP, WITH TWO ROUNDED SIDE QUARDS PLUS CENTRAL POINT. GRIP ALSO ENGRAVED, POSSIBLE SILVER INLAY. DONOR'S NOTES - "CEREMONIAL KUCKREE, BURMA...A RITUAL...AS DESCRIBED TO ME, WHEN A MALE CHILD REACHES THE PROPER AGE, HE MUST EARN THE RIGHT TO HIS KUCKREE-AN INVOLVED CEREMONY." FURTHER INDICATES THEY ARE WORN BY BURMESE TROOPS SERVING W/ BRITISH ARMED FORCES. GOOD CONDITION, SOME RUST & TARNISH.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Burma (Myanmar), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Burmese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 364983
label: USNM Number
content: E424627-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 50 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 9 cm