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Tanto

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Berkshire Museum

Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, United States

Knife and sheath. The bone hilt is six inches long. The grip is five and a half inches long and decorated with flowers. The middle has three men, one clean shaven and bald, one clean shaven with a hat, and the last has a long beard with a hood. There is a small handguard half an inch long with depictions of hills circling it. The blade is eleven inches long with a half inch brass hilt guard at the bottom. The bone sheath is fifteen inches long. There is carved floral decorations as well as depictions of men similar to the knife handle. There is a red and yellow string that wraps around the sheath and through both knobs and ends with a tassle.

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  • Title: Tanto
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 0794
  • Type: Bone, metal
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