Knife And Scabbard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "KNIFE AN ELEGANT PIECE OF WORK. ELLIPTIC OVATE BLADE WITH FRET INSET OF CIRCULAR FORM IN CENTER OF BLADE. GRIP INLAID WITH COPPER. POMMEL OF COPPER. SCABBARD CARVED WOOD WITH FETICHES. THIS TYPE OF KNIFE IS ILLUSTRATED IN TORDAY & JOYCE, NOTES ETHNOG...BAKUBA... (ANN. MUS. CONGO BELGE, ETHNOG., SER D, IV), P. 194, FIG. 279B, AND IDENTIFIED AS A "COUTEAUX DE DANSE IKURU BANGA" OF THE KUBA. CLEANED, SEE RESTORATION RECORD 7-2-64."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bantu
label: Culture
content: Kuba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204428-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife/Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 38 cm