Sword And Scabbard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Two-edged blade, handle wrapped with leather strips. Crocodile hide scabbard with ivory ring attached as well as jawbones and skull of small crocodiles. "Mr. Sadik Nur thinks these may be Ethiopian, from the shape of the handle, which is not Sudanese. The Arabic writing on the blades is not at all Sudanese, but there is one possibility; namely, that your knives were the private property of the Sultan of Darfur, in the west Sudan, who had his name put on everything, even boomerangs. Further of his weapons are in the Khalifa's House Museum, Omdurman." M. Cavendish, S. Nur; University of Khartoum, Sudan. 9/8/1965 "... bracelets are made in Omdurman of carved ivory, with the decoration burnt or fired into them. They are popular all over the Central Sudan and into Nubia particularly around Dongola ... saw them used in norther Sudanese Nubia as the bride's wedding gear, later hung on the walls." same source as comment above."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Nov 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sudan (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361668-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword/Sheath