Sword

Museum number:
5-6653a-c
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
109 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2307
Description:
Sword with scabbard and waistband; a) sword; iron blade; alternating beveled; ground edge ea. side; black filled; wooden handle, black painted incised design 1 side; length 61.5 cm. b) scabbard; 2 pieces wood tied together with fiber twine; black painted incised designs 1 side; length 55 cm; c) waist band; 1 strip hide with for doubled and tied to scabbard w/ fiber twine; length 81 cm Used by men in combat. Collected Nov. 1966.
Donor:
Mary Jean Aerni and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Toro, West Uganda
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Uganda; Toro; (Wa) Tutsi (Murdock 45)
Culture or time period:
Wa Tutsi
Collector:
Mary Jean Aerni
Collection date:
Nov 1966
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Scabbards
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sword, accession number 5-6653a-c, described as Sword with scabbard and waistband; a) sword; iron blade; alternating beveled; ground edge ea. side; black filled; wooden handle, black painted incised design 1 side; length 61.5 cm. b) scabbard; 2 pieces wood tied together with fiber twine; black painted incised designs 1 side; length 55 cm; c) waist band; 1 strip hide with for doubled and tied to scabbard w/ fiber twine; length 81 cm Used by men in combat. Collected Nov. 1966.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sword, accession number 5-6653a-c, described as Sword with scabbard and waistband; a) sword; iron blade; alternating beveled; ground edge ea. side; black filled; wooden handle, black painted incised design 1 side; length 61.5 cm. b) scabbard; 2 pieces wood tied together with fiber twine; black painted incised designs 1 side; length 55 cm; c) waist band; 1 strip hide with for doubled and tied to scabbard w/ fiber twine; length 81 cm Used by men in combat. Collected Nov. 1966.

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