Subject: gaucho cowboy
Culture: Argentine
Setting: South American pampas 19thc
Object: facón knife
Ind Arg *
* Museum of the Americas
"Facón (waist knife) Argentina Silver with gold ornament handle and sheath
Steel blade; 8" l. (the knife is the essential element of gaucho attire)"
* Elmo
* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War
Facón (knife). Gaucho, Argentina or Uruguay"
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Seigen *
