Knife

AF1025

From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number AF1025
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Mangbetu
Provenience Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Iron | Wood
Description

Wood carvers knife. Long cylindrical wooden handle, tapering to point at the end; two pieces of iron are wrapped around the base of the neck of the handle to secure blade; faintly incised are two stars on one side of blade; verticla groove down one side of blade.

Length 33.5 cm
Width 1.3 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 639 - Other Number

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