Sword
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1961
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John O. La Gorce
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Georgian shashka sword. Mounts are all heavily overlaid In gold koftgari of flamelike designs indicative of early 19th C. Georgian work.Possibly origin is Circassian as well. Blade appears to be Turkish or Caucasian style watered steel, or sham wootz. The scabbard is likely missing the bottom and the top mount.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jul 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Caucasus, Georgia (not certain) / Azerbaijan (not certain) / Armenia (not certain) / Russia (not certain), Asia / Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Circassian (?)
label: Culture
content: Georgian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 229198
label: USNM Number
content: E398845-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath