Sword
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1930
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Emeline W. Kennan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Blade ornamented with crescent moons, sun, stars and hand holding saber."
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Ottoman Empire Caucasian or Syrian shashka sword. This example has horn grips and features a European, likely German or Hungarian trade blade, the style of which was common in the Ottoman Empire during the period. The scabbard fittings are decorated in Syrian style silver koftgari over metal, with leather and a wooden core.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Caucasus (not certain), Turkey (Türkiye) (not certain) / Russia (not certain) / Syria (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
label: Culture
content: Caucasian (?)
label: Culture
content: Syrian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 109552
label: USNM Number
content: E276691-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath