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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Knife with handle and sheath

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Ivory scabbard and grip are carved in relief with a four-clawed four-clawed dragon in stylised clouds. The material was coloured with a partly artificial patina artificial patina and polished to emphasise the relief effect. On the handle there is a small opening as a cord pull-through so that the knife can be attached. The design of the decoration and the material are strongly reminiscent of Japan. It could be a type of belt gag (jap. netsuke) with which small objects (jap. sashimono) were attached. were attached. The shape corresponds to a 'sashi netsuke'. The material is probably not probably not elephant ivory, but the tooth of a marine creature.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
knives
Dimensions
20 x 302 x 88 mm
Material/Technique
Iron alloy; bone; fibre, vegetable;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 10687
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Japan
    Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan -> Hokkaido
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Asia
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    when
    between April and May 1881
    where
    Hokkaido
    who
    Joest, Wilhelm - Former Possessors

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