Throwing knife

Museum number:
5-15380
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4295
Description:
Knife, throwing, steel with wooden handle. Curved flat blade with barb at top edge. 4 holes drilled into blade near barb. Incised geometric design on 1 side only of blade. Wood handle, wrapped with iron strips. Length 56.0 centimeters, width (at mid point of blade) 3.2 centimeters. From Central Africa, Zaire, Azande. Materials: IN PROGRESS
Donor:
Mrs. Stanley Zuckerman and Stanley Zuckerman
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Africa; Zaire; Azande attributed
Culture or time period:
Azande
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Throwing knives
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
January 4, 1988
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Throwing knife, accession number 5-15380, described as Knife, throwing, steel with wooden handle. Curved flat blade with barb at top edge. 4 holes drilled into blade near barb. Incised geometric design on 1 side only of blade. Wood handle, wrapped with iron strips. Length 56.0 centimeters, width (at mid point of blade) 3.2 centimeters. From Central Africa, Zaire, Azande. Materials: IN PROGRESS
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Throwing knife, accession number 5-15380, described as Knife, throwing, steel with wooden handle. Curved flat blade with barb at top edge. 4 holes drilled into blade near barb. Incised geometric design on 1 side only of blade. Wood handle, wrapped with iron strips. Length 56.0 centimeters, width (at mid point of blade) 3.2 centimeters. From Central Africa, Zaire, Azande. Materials: IN PROGRESS

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