Tswana and Southern Sotho

Fragment of Knife Sheath with Leopard, Frog, and Unknown Animal

1699

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Tswana and Southern Sotho

Fragment of Knife Sheath with Leopard, Frog, and Unknown Animal

Culture: Tswana
Culture: Southern Sotho

Fragment of Knife Sheath with Leopard, Frog, and Unknown Animal

1699

Physical Qualities Bone, metal, 5 1/8 × 1 in. (13 × 2.5 cm.)

Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Amy Gould and Matthew Polk, Gibson Island, Maryland

Object Number 2017.222

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2017; Jacaranda Tribal, New York; Michael Graham-Stewart, London; Alain Guisson, Brussels, Belgium

Baltimore Museum of Art; Permanent collection installation of African Art; December 2021-

Jack, Anthony. "Africa: Relics of the Colonial Era." London: Michael Graham-Stewart, 1991, p. 43.

Klopper, Sandra, "The Art of Southeast Africa from the Conru Collection." 5 Continents, 2002.

"The handle of this rare knife is presented as a European mounted on a horse or mule. He is bearded and wearing a jacket, while the horse is decorated with a halter. The base of the handle is decorated with seven registers of repeated oval shapes. The sheaht, which is perhaps older and belonged originally to anothe knife, has a leopard, a frog, and another abstracted animal carved in high relief." - The Art of Southeast Africa p.188