This style of 'X-hilted' dagger is typical of the Beja Hadendoa or Beni-Amir peoples of Eritrea and the Sudan that live along the southwestern shores of the Red Sea. The dark brown wooden hilt has fluted carvings and is decorated upon its display face with white metal (possibly low content silver alloy) 'buttons' with straight and twisted wire wrapping of similar composition around the skinny part of the grip with a strap running around the back of the hilt where the wood has also been decorated with lines and shallow round depressions. The curved double edge blade has similar incised designs upon each face. Overall length of the dagger with hilt is just under 11½ inches (29 cm); the blade alone is 7½ inches (19 cm) in length. An accompanying brown embossed leather sheath has white metal trim having applied decoration at the mouth and tip; including the sheath the overall length is just under a foot (30.3 cm). Overall weight is about 6 ounces (170 grams) with the dagger alone weighing 4¾ ounces (133 grams). Lew dated this example to the 1940s.