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Old 30th October 2016, 05:04 PM   #1
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Default Unusual horn dagger

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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