Sword
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: "Falcated swords. One or two depressions running the length of the blade. There is a small perforation in the blade just opposite the shoulder about 8 inches from the point. The cutting edge is on the concave side. There is a tongue just above the handle. Handles of wood. Some wrapped with wire. Cleaned, see Restoration Record. 1-22-64 (A), 7-15-64 (B) 11/3/66 Accounted for + cleaned. Swords of the type here illustrated are identified as from the Mangbetu of the northeastern Congo, in Czekanowski, "Forschungen im Nil-Kongo-Zwischengebiet", Bd. 2, p. 143, fig. 32. However, P. Germann in "Afrikanische Wurfeisen und Wurfhölzer im Völkermuseum zu Leipzig" (Jahrbuch des Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Bd. 8, 1918-1921, pp. 41 ff.) notes that this type of weapon has been variously ascribed to Mongala Dist., the Bangala, to the Stanley Falls Region, the Niam-Niam (Azande), etc."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Congo, Republic of, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mangbetu
label: Culture
content: Some
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067312
label: USNM Number
content: E322671-5
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword