Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1949.523 A-C: 'Three knives, with bone handles. A: with leather sheath. Said to be of pattern on Sayula knife in Jalisco. B: probably made in Ayutla. A-B: bought at Chilpancingo in 1904. C: folding type, like a pruning knife. All have engraved blades and C is probably from the same place as A and B'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Hans Friedrich Gadow in 1904.
Event Date 1904
Author: maa

Context (References)
Gadow, Hans. 1908. Through Southern Mexico: Being an Account of the Travels of a Naturalist. London: Witherby & Co. Illustrated p.147.
Event Date 1908
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Rachel Hand: 'Accretions on blade.'
Event Date 28/3/2000
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Iron knife with curved blade which folds into a horn handle. Short, curved blade with right-angled choil; engraved on both sides of the blade back; blade pivots on an iron rivet fixed through the tang. Curved, horn handle with groove into which the cutting edge of the blade slots; rounded terminal.
Event Date 28/6/2021
Author: Katrina Dring