Knife
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: "Upper Congo acc. to Ward Cat. Mbala (C)* One has a curved point and double cutting edge. Incised with a line of dots down the middle. Handle of wood wrapped with iron. The next has a square point with a copper plug in one corner. The handle sheathed with brass. The third has the handle wrapped with brass, copper and iron. Cleaned, see Restoration record. 1-22-64 (C), 8-6-64 (B) 7-29-64 (A) *c. A blade almost identical is identified as Bahuana (now called Hungana) in "George Grenfell and the Congo", vol. 2, fig. 371, p.696. Called "executioner's sword." A sim. blade ill. in Beaucorps "l'Evolution economique chez les Basongo..." Inst. Roy. Col. Belge., Mem. in 8°, Soc Sci Moral. et Pol. T. 20, fasc 4, 7th p of plates (Basongo are a sec. of Mbala acc to map -G.D.G.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Congo River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067312
label: USNM Number
content: E322717-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: 322717a
content: 56 cm