Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Oct 1921
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Herbert Ward
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Sarita S. Ward
notes: label: Notes
content: 12 knives are listed on the card, 6 large and 6 small. As of 2005, there are 6 large and 5 small knives with this catalog number found in storage. Therefore, one of the small ones is missing.
label: Notes
content: From card: "6 small and 6 large blades. All of the blades are incised with simple designs. Some have a depression along the median line, some do not. Some of the blades are perforated with from 1 to 4 circular holes. There is a slit just above the handle. Handles wrapped with copper strips. A: Cleaned, see Restoration Record. 1-22-64 B): Cleaned, see Restoration Record 2-10-65. Ref. 1) Identified as from people living on the borders of the Mobangi R. (Uele R.) in Leiden Museum "Album of the Ethnography of the Congo Basin" Pl. 78, fig. 7. This would not include the Poto. But another, pictured on Pl. 88, fig 7, is identified as from Upoto. 2) Thonner, "Vom Kongo Zum Ubangi", pl. 109 - attributed to the Yakoma (i.e., Boguru)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Poto
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067312
label: USNM Number
content: E322667-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife