Dagger "Ekokoe Pl. Bikokoe"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 parts: dagger and sheath
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 55 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans".
label: Notes
content: From cards: "In scabbard. broad. Broad short knives called Ekokoĕ (pl. Bikokoĕ), used for eating and in self defence and especially in cutting up game. The names given for Cat. Nos. 164,890; 164,891; 164,892 are specific; the generic word for knife is Okĕng (pl. Skĕng). Kota (not Fang) in style.--L. Siroto, 7-22-64" "Cleaned, see Restoration record 12-23-64."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: 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: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E164892-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 26.7 cm