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This is an Indian dagger carved from a single piece of (bullock) horn. There are similar examples in Oxford’s Pitt Rivers museum. One, which was collected in 1862, is referenced here:
http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID126301.html Artzi suggest that they were an alternative to the typical Fakir horn daggers, which almost as often as not have metal spikes incorporated. |
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An interesting item. I've seen them before once or twice and always assumed they were a poor man's version of the South Indian dagger "khanjarli" ??
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