Iron Knife And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: Note re photos: Neg. #2005-25303 is color digital of knife. Neg. #2005-25305 is color digital with knife on left and Cat. #360046 on right. From card: "Heart-shape; leather sheath, plain; blade covered with Arabic inscription. Probably Sudan, not Congo - G.D. Gibson." Knife is illus. Fig. 11.9, left, p. 135, in Kreamer, Christine Mullen, and Sarah Adams. 2007. Inscribing meaning writing and graphic systems in African art. [Washington, D.C.]: Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art. Identified there as heart-shaped knife inscribed with pseudo-Arabic (includes leather sheath), Sudan, late 19th to early 20th century.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo / Sudan, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360017-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife / Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Knife
content: 36.8 cm