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dagger

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human history
  • Description

    knife with snake or crocodile skin sheath

    accession record: 1930.122: "dagger in crocodile skin sheath picked up in Palestine at first assault on Gaza by Trooper Hugh Charters Brown service no 7/1025, Wellington Mounted Rifles who was later killed in action, handed in [to Museum] by AEG Brown"

  • Place
  • Associated Place
  • Accession Number
    1930.122
  • Accession Date
    1930
  • Other Id

    4790 (ethnology)

  • Department
  • Display Room
dagger & scabbard

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