Sheath
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: "(Pomo & Boumali)* (Congo-Braz.)* Small leaf shaped blades with rather long slender handles, wrapped usually in brass wire or copper strips. Two of them have sheaths - one of alligator skin, one of wood wrapped with brass. One has a cone shaped brass pommel. *Similar to the "mapoula" of the Pomo and Boumali tribes of the middle Sanga River in Congo, Braz. See G. Breul, "Les. Pop. de la M. Sanga" in Rev. d'Et [crossed out] et de Sociol. Paris, 1910. Vol. 1, p. 30, fig. 50. -G.D.G."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 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: Luba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067312
label: USNM Number
content: E322684-12
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sheath