Sword"Fa Pl. Mefa" With Scabbard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 53 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans".
label: Notes
content: From card: "Fang. Scabbard covered with reptile skin, 13 7/8" long. A sword of this type is illustrated in Tessmann, "Dir Pangwe", Bd. 2, p. 247, and therefore ascribed to the Fang. -G.D.G. A is sword, B is scabbard "Every Fang wears one of these attached to a sort of pouch in which he carries flint and still (steel?), fetishes and other articles too numerous to mention. ...used in self defence and formerly in clearing the undergrowth of the forest." --Rev. A. C. Good Cleaned, see Restoration Record 8-19-64. Cleaned, see Restoration Record 3-1-65 (scabbard)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E164906-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword/Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 52.1 cm