Blade, Wrought Iron
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1895
name: label: Collector
content: Richard D. Mohun
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department Of State
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "USED AS MONEY...174,683A 36 3/4" 1. GENYA?... ITEM 174,683A, SELECTED FOR USE IN AN EXHIBIT ON MARKETS AND MONEY, SUFFERED DAMAGE THROUGH CARELESS HANDLING IN THAT THE HANDLE SNAPPED OFF WHERE IT IS INSERTED INTO THE SOCKET OF THE BLADE. THIS WAS REPAIRED BY DRIVING A DOUBLE-POINTED NAIL INTO EACH END OF THE REMAINING HANDLE, AND FORCING THE TWO PIECES TOGETHER, AND BY ADDING GLUE AT THE JOINT. THE NAIL WHICH HAD HELD THE HANDLE IN THE SOCKET HAD TO BE REMOVED TO CARRY OUT THIS REPAIR. (NAIL KEPT IN VIAL, MARKED 174,683A-x)
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 54 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Genya
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029024
label: USNM Number
content: E174683-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Money
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 93.34 cm