Ceremonial axe with imported brass tacks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jun 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Willard P. Tisdel
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "[NMNH] Case 13, Hall 7 Carried by the king when going to war. A similar axe is illustrated in "French Equatorial Africa" by Robert Delavignetter, pl. 18, and identified as a Lali chief's axe, the symbol of his judiciary power. The Lali (Teke) are neighbors of the Yans in the Congo Republic. Also illustrated in Widstrand "African Axes" fig. 95, ascribed to "Bolobo" (a town in Yansi territory) Mobangi used as tribal designation, following O. [indecipherable] Cleaned, see Restoration Record 7-20-64."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yanzi
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016168
label: USNM Number
content: E76249-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife