Donor Name:

Rev. D W. Snyder  Search this

Length:

59.7 cm

36 cm

Culture:

Kete  Search this

(Ba Kete)  Search this

Object Type:

Knife

Place:

Kasai River, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Not Certain) / Angola (Not Certain), Africa

Accession Date:

10 Oct 1896

Notes:

FROM CARD: "M' WALI. CEREMONIAL OF CHIEF... FOR CUTTING WOOD, OR USED IN WAR."

Listed on page 54 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans".

Record Last Modified:

5 Apr 2022

Specimen Count:

1

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

031155

USNM Number:

E175892-0

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Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3564989b5-9c61-44cd-88b9-134f8371e3a1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8351201