Battle Ax
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: "FLAMING BLADE OF PLAIN IRON WORK SET INTO A SMOOTH WOODEN HANDLE HAVING CUP SHAPED DEPRESSIONS IN UPPER END. USED CHIEFLY AS AN ORNAMENTAL WEAPON BUT FREQUENTLY FOR SECURING PALM NUTS."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 68 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the African Tribes (Bantu)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: Baluba
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: E204285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Axe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Handle
content: 34.3 cm