Sword and sheath
- Museum number:
- 5-11719a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210511719a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- B-2235a,b (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
- Description:
- sword and sheath; metal blade with dark brown leather covered handle, red leather sheath with faint black design, red leather fringe and black and white plaited leather strips decorate sheath; 71 cm long.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Nigeria; Purchased at Ogomosho
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1951
- Materials:
- Leather and Metal
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Plaited weaving
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1971 and December 15, 1972
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 71 centimeters
- Comment:
- PAHMA Storage Loc: W-12-5
- Loans:
- S1967-1968 #39: Aldridge Players West (October 13, 1967–October 31, 1967) and S1968-1969 #2: KQED Television (July 8, 1968–July 12, 1968)
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