Tubu and Daza
Knife in Sheath
Tubu or Daza, 1900-1932
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Physical Qualities
Leather, metal, 29.8 H x 4.2 W x 1.4 D cm.
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
2002.137
Two-sided blade with arrow-shaped hilt, with braided leather thongs covering the arrow shaft, bottom of the arrow, and top of the blade; sheath of leather in red with tan at either end.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Howard and Jane Cohen, Baltimore; according to appraisal: 'acquired by owner in Mali in 1990 from a local person who claimed to have made it many years before then.'
