Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jun 1923
name: label: Donor Name
content: Cassie M. Myers
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cucherie or Kookry, a curved knife with heavy blade used by the Ghoorkas [Gurkhas]."
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Indian or Nepali Kukri of interesting design. Handle is gilded brass with a tiger stripe type chiseled design. Blade is of typical shape.
label: Notes
content: The Gurkhas or Gorkhas are soldiers of Nepali nationality recruited in the British Army traditionally, and in the British Army, Indian Army, and war zones around the world currently.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gurkha (Nepalese)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 070138
label: USNM Number
content: E274820-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife