Knife With Sheath, Belt, Fetishes, Fork
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Aug 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Richard L. Garner
label: Donor Name
content: Richard L. Garner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Lanceolate blade, wooden handle wrapped with brass wire. Sheath of wood covered with lizard skin and bound at top and bottom with iron wire. Suspended to shoulder belt of leopard skin, with two fetishes, one of goat's horn the other avoid shape; both are covered with woven fiber of the pineapple leaf, and are said to contain poison. Fork and fork case are also attached to this belt; fork is of iron, two times, sheath of lizard skin. Garner: "This fork is a native product and the only one of its kind ever seen in this part of Central Africa. The handle is characteristic, but the fork itself seems to be an original pattern. The sheath is lizard skin, the same as that of knife. The raw hide to which these are suspended is leopard. When they first came into my possession they were intact, but the moths have cut the hair off recently. The fetish of the goat's horn is a great one among them. The covering of the cavity is native work, made by hand; the material is the fiber of the pineapple leaf. The covering of the ovoid fetish is of the same kind. Both of them contain poison, according to native report. Knife: this knife is of native workmanship and made of native iron. The brass wire on the handle is of European make. The knife is not by any means up to the standard in model or finish. The sheath is of the skin of a kind of iquana. The iron wrappings on the sheath are said to be native, but they appear to me to have been wrought from European iron wire, but the irregularity in size would indicate that they are of native production--but the brass at the tip is evidently European. The handle, notches on edge near handle, and design stamped on blade are peculiarly native.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Gabon River, Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036893
label: USNM Number
content: E206107-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife/Sheath / Belt / Fork