Knife "Dao"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Sep 1986
label: Collection Date
content: 9/1942-2/43
name: label: Collector
content: Kenneth Blaisdell
label: Donor Name
content: Kenneth Blaisdell
notes: label: Notes
content: BROAD, IRON BLADE (21CM L) HAFTED ON WOODEN HANDLE (SHORTENED BY COLLECTOR/DONOR FOR CRATING). SECTIONOF PLAITED FIBER AT HAFT. BLADE OUTWARDLY CURVED, DECORATED WITH SMALL BAND OF TRIANGULAR INCISIONS. TRADITIONAL "HEAD AXE"; ALSO USED AS MULTI-PURPOSE MAN'S KNIFE. SIMILAR KNIFE ILLUSTRATED IN VON FUROR-HAIMENDORF, P.53. (SEE HIST. CARD.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wanching / Wakching, Assam, India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Konyak Naga
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356652
label: USNM Number
content: E423019-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10 cm