Dagger; Dagger-sheath

Middle East, Yemen, Hadramout, Tarim

Description: Steel dagger (jambiya) with a wooden hilt decorated with silver plaques and pins. With a curved silver sheath decorated with pierced work, applied and stamped decoration and the name of the silversmith and date of production (AH 1335? AH 1339?).

Acquisition notes: This object is part of a large collection of items donated by Leila Ingrams in 2012 (2012,6030.1ff). Some were collected by her parents, Doreen and Harold Ingrams, between the 1920s-40s and others by Leila herself from the 1980s-2005 on the island of Zanzibar and in Hadramawt, Yemen.

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