Ceremonial 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: "Blades terminate in two incurving points. There is a double spiral at the crotch. The blades are engraved with vertical lines. The handles are of wood wrapped with copper, brass or iron strips or wire. 2 of the handles terminate in knobs." "Cleaned, see Restoration Record 7-27-64 (A)." Back of Card: "Ref.: British Museum, Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections, 1925: fig. 224b. "BaNgala""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ngala
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067312
label: USNM Number
content: E322655-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife