IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158406
accession number:	O.91-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 12 May 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The steel blade is straight, double edged with a full-length medial rib and a reinforced point. The hilt has a convex guard attached to short, wide arms ending in lotus bud terminals at the rear, joined by a pair of bars swelling to their centres that form the grip. At the front of the guard are heavy katar-shaped reinforces with cusped and scalloped edges and incised lines, attached to the blade by three rivets, one with copper alloy washers corroding actively. The guard is extended on the outside of the hand into a V-section curved guard ending in an animal-headed finial. The hilt is painted black inside, the rest  polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion
title:	dagger

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Ganjam. Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)


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/158406





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: 56.5

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 68.8

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 570



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