Bronze dagger

Bronze dagger with a curved blade and a ram's head pommel. Late Shang era, fourteenth to eleventh centuries B.C., unearthed at Balinzuo Banner, north of Chifeng.

GENGHIS KHAN: TREASURES OF INNER MONGOLIA was organized and circulated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Credits Photographer: Marc Carter. Source: Collection of the Balinzuo Banner Museum

Caption source: Adam T. Kessler (1994) Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 44-45.

Image source: Photo CD 6315 3021 1433, Image # 008