Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Mar 1895
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. John H. Camp
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. John H. Camp
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BROAD LEAF-SHAPED BLADE SET INTO A WOODEN HANDLE. HANDLE WRAPPED WITH HEAVY BRASS WIRE. TYPED COPY OF DONOR'S LIST INDICATES THIS KNIFE IS FROM "IRREBU ON LAKE MONTOMBEE." IREBU IS A POST SHOWN ON OLD MAPS AS LYING ON THE SOUTH BANK OF THE STREAM WHICH DRAINS LAKE TUMBA INTO THE CONGO, AT ABOUT 17 45' E, 0 40 S, AND NOT FAR FROM THE MOUTH OF THE SANGA RIVER ON THE WEST BANK OF THE CONGO. THIS SPECIMEN IS OF A TYPE GENERALLY CALLED "SANGA". SEE DYBOWSKI, LA ROUTE DU TCHAD, FIG. 43. ALSO, SEE ANDERSSON, EFRIAM, CONTRIBUTION A L'ETHNOGRAPHIE DES KUTA I (UPPSALA 1953), FIG. 25A. CLEANED, SEE RESTORATION RECORD 2-10-65."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Irebu, Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sanga
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028914
label: USNM Number
content: E169254-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife