JAG 1997-9-59

Knife consisting of a metal blade and a carved wooden upper section. The blade finial has an projecting truncated cone with cylindrical top above a narrower flatter section of the handle above the blade. The scabbard is made in two pieces of carved wood - bound together with bands of copper wire. It has a rectangular based fastener which terminates in four inward pointing triangular planes. This has a hole through it.