Throwing knife

Museum number:
5-15378
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015378
Accession number:
Acc.4295
Description:
Knife, throwing, steel with wooden handle and hilt. Flat blade with forged ring base for attachment of carrier, both sides unsharpened until near tip. Flaring curved tip with backward pointing barb. Raised geometric design on tip, blending into shank of blade. Small hole near center of tip. Length 61.3 centimeters, width (at top of knife) 20.2 centimeters. From Central Africa, Zaire, Njem Bumali.
Donor:
Mrs. Stanley Zuckerman and Stanley Zuckerman
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Culture or time period:
Njem
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 5-15378, described as Knife, throwing, steel with wooden handle and hilt. Flat blade with forged ring base for attachment of carrier, both sides unsharpened until near tip. Flaring curved tip with backward pointing barb. Raised geometric design on tip, blending into shank of blade. Small hole near center of tip. Length 61.3 centimeters, width (at top of knife) 20.2 centimeters. From Central Africa, Zaire, Njem Bumali.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Throwing knife, accession number 5-15378, described as Knife, throwing, steel with wooden handle and hilt. Flat blade with forged ring base for attachment of carrier, both sides unsharpened until near tip. Flaring curved tip with backward pointing barb. Raised geometric design on tip, blending into shank of blade. Small hole near center of tip. Length 61.3 centimeters, width (at top of knife) 20.2 centimeters. From Central Africa, Zaire, Njem Bumali.

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