Catalogue card: 'Dagger used to commit suicide, for full dress, or for fighting. The blade is iron, handle brass and leather top. Similar pattern on both sides of blade.'
Agbada or dagger. Iron blade with a slight waist and tapering to a long, narrow tip set into a ridged copper alloy handle with wooden pommel covered with leather; stamped rows of crescents along the central ridge.
Agbada or dagger. Iron blade with a slight waist and tapering to a long, narrow tip set into a ridged copper alloy handle with wooden pommel covered with leather; stamped rows of crescents along the central ridge.