From card: "Falcated swords. One or two depressions running the length of the blade. There is a small perforation in the blade just opposite the shoulder about 8 inches from the point. The cutting edge is on the concave side. There is a tongue just above the handle. Handles of wood. Some wrapped with wire. Cleaned, see Restoration Record. 1-22-64 (A), 7-15-64 (B) 11/3/66 Accounted for + cleaned. Swords of the type here illustrated are identified as from the Mangbetu of the northeastern Congo, in Czekanowski, "Forschungen im Nil-Kongo-Zwischengebiet", Bd. 2, p. 143, fig. 32. However, P. Germann in "Afrikanische Wurfeisen und Wurfhölzer im Völkermuseum zu Leipzig" (Jahrbuch des Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Bd. 8, 1918-1921, pp. 41 ff.) notes that this type of weapon has been variously ascribed to Mongala Dist., the Bangala, to the Stanley Falls Region, the Niam-Niam (Azande), etc."