Sword
AF1210A
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1210A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bayaka |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Iron | Wood |
| Description | Iron sword; wooden handle; twisted iron wire is wrapped around body of handle; bulbous segmented iron work near rim of handle; conical shape iron object is attached to end of handle; perforated ornamentation on the body of the blade. |
| Length | 66 cm |
| Width | 4.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 674 - Other Number |
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