Card/Transcription No.: 561

561 A RITUALISTIC SICKLE (wood, gold, electrum, glass and
calcite)

POSITION:    
Poised, where it was thrown, on box No. 550 - (see photos.
1146, 1147).

DIMENSIONS:
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27.0
22.0
5.8
cents.

DESCRIPTION: 
A ritualistic sickle of wood, covered with thin sheet electrum
& gold, with jewelled binding; coloured glass teeth set in
green cement; the teeth of the following colours - (next to
handle) red, turquoise-blue, violet-blue, red, violet-blue,
and turquoise blue. 
The tapering end, ends in the form of a snakes head.
In embossed gold: - <> on side.

The back or verso of the sickle quite plain electrum.