IDENTIFIERS
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id:	159911
accession number:	O.144-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The steel blade is double edged and double curved, with two fullers running most of its length. The hilt is also of steel, with a beaked pommel carved as a stylised parrot’s head, a plain tubular grip, slightly curved, and a stepped section at the blade originally decorated with incised crenelations, sandwiching a section of horn. Polished bright with areas of patination from its earlier corrosion
title:	dagger

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From Ganjam. Probably from Tanjore arsenal


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/159911





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 25

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 34.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 226



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
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