Wood handle metal utensil

Museum number:
5-14281
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050014281
Accession number:
Acc.3572
Description:
Sword. Iron blade with ridge down center, 2 sickle-shaped projections at top, 2 smaller ones beneath. Pair of lunate projections above wood handle. Length 51.6 centimeters.
Donor:
Ronald Grimes
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Kundo or Ntomba peoples. Collected from Pygmy but not made by them
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Wood handle metal utensil, accession number 5-14281, described as Sword. Iron blade with ridge down center, 2 sickle-shaped projections at top, 2 smaller ones beneath. Pair of lunate projections above wood handle. Length 51.6 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wood handle metal utensil, accession number 5-14281, described as Sword. Iron blade with ridge down center, 2 sickle-shaped projections at top, 2 smaller ones beneath. Pair of lunate projections above wood handle. Length 51.6 centimeters.

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