Iron knife of indeterminate age

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Object Number 39-15-60/3309

Display Title Iron knife of indeterminate age

Descriptions

Inventory Description Knife, iron, triangular, perforated

Classification

Knife

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Asia / Mongolia

Additional Geographic Terms Mongolia, Central Inner

Materials Iron

Dimensions Overall: 11.9 x 1.9 x 0.3 cm (4 11/16 x 3/4 x 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 39-15-60/3309

Provenance

Collector Owen Lattimore (ca. 1932)

Donor Donated by John Coddington (1939)

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