Object Number | 42-30-548 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Baluba |
Provenience | Zaire |
Section | African |
Materials | Iron | Ivory |
Description | Iron blade with slight medial ridge on both faces and with wide, obtusely pointed end, slightly concave sides contracting to a point behind which they contract sharply to the tang which extends through the wooden grip, lentoid at the junction with the blade and narrowing to a flat circular end. Band of deep grooves around grip near blade. |
Length | 25 cm |
Width | 4.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Morgan Wing on behalf of the Estate of Florence C. Whitney, 1942 |
Other Number | 202 - Collector Number |
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