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: "FOR FIGHTING. UNABLE TO IDENTIFY TRIBE OR PLACE CALLED MONSEMBE. THE LIST IN THE ACCESSION PAPERS IS TYPED (FROM A MISSING ORIGINAL PRESUMABLY HAND-WRITTEN COPY), AND SHOWS A QUESTION MADE AFTER "MONSEMBE," PRESUMABLY INDICATING AN ILLIGIBLE WORD IN THE ORIGINAL. THIS COULD BE MONTEMBE, A LAKE, AS SEVERAL OTHER SPECIMENS IN THIS COLLECTION ARE FROM IREBU, WITH THE NOTE "MADE ON LAKE MONTEMBEE." THE NTOMBA WHOBIT THE SHORES OF LAKE MONTEMBE (LAKE TUMBA). CLEANED, SEE RESTORATION RECORD 8-14-64."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 55 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ntomba
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: E169253-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife