A Fine Darfur Arm Dagger
A Fine Darfur Arm Dagger
Fur - Nuba or surrounding neighbors
Darfur, Anglo- Egyptian Sudan - South Darfur, Sudan
Mid 20th century (ca. 1930 -1980)
Wood, elephant ivory, steel, leather, metal alloy
Blade: 15,9cm
Hilt & Blade: 27,3cm
Hilt, Blade, Sheath: 29,8cm
Collection Date: 2018
Collection Number: 31
A fine Sudanese arm dagger of good quality from the Fur or Nuba people between the Darfur and Kordofan Region. The steel blade is double- edged with a prominent central ridge separated by two offset fullers with chamfered edges.
The hilt is carved from wood, with the lower half composed of elephant ivory and a disc- shaped pommel. Hilt decorated in linear and circle- dot motifs and a metal alloy pommel cap. Red and orange tooled leather sheath with a braided leather arm loop. A similar example in the Pitt Rivers Museum was collected between 1934 - 1936 from the Darfur capital Al Fashir and another in the British Musuem from Nyala in the 1970s