Knife; Thipa
Item
Title
Knife; Thipa
Creator
Unrecorded
Subject
Weapons
Description
Physical Description: Dagger with triangular iron blade with subtle zig zag decoration. It has a wooden handle with incised decoration near the hilt, and a wooden sheath decorated with six triangular carvings.
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
Pre 1898
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Whole: 205 mm
Iron; Wood
Identifier
R4737/2
Source
This collection was donated to Brighton Museum by Miss Mary Knott Panzera in 1949. The accession register entry notes the objects are from 'Bechuanaland, 1898'
Miss Panzera was the daughter of Colonel F W Panzera, Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate up to 1915. She is listed on the passenger list of a ship leaving UK for Cape, South Africa in 1907, so it is likely that she visited Bechuanaland herself while her father was working there.
See also R4442 acquired by Colonel F W Panzera, a collection of four pots from Barotseland (now Zambia).
Miss Panzera was the daughter of Colonel F W Panzera, Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate up to 1915. She is listed on the passenger list of a ship leaving UK for Cape, South Africa in 1907, so it is likely that she visited Bechuanaland herself while her father was working there.
See also R4442 acquired by Colonel F W Panzera, a collection of four pots from Barotseland (now Zambia).
Miss M K Panzera; Colonel F W Panzera
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
1898
Space/Place
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Cultural Group: Khoisan; Basarwa
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International