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: From card: "Leaf shaped blades beautifully worked, with median ridge and incisions following the lines of the edges of the blade. The handles are of well carved wood each terminating in a knob. Three of the handles are ornamented by beautifully inlaid brass and iron studs. Although attributed by Ward to the Bassongo-Meno (Nkutshu), these are illus. in Torday & Joyce "Notes ethnographiques...Bakuba", fig. 278 (p. 193) as "couteau de parade Ikula" see also p. 199. Hence Kuba accepted -G.D. Gibson 9/26/66 ACCOUNTED FOR + CLEANED Cleaned and treated, see Restoration Record # , 1-22-64."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 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: Kuba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067312
label: USNM Number
content: E322668-6
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife