Sword
AF1140
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Bangala District | Bapoto Town
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1140 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bapoto |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Bangala District | Bapoto Town |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leather | Iron | Copper | Iron |
| Description | Iron blade; blade is ornamentally incised, open cast slits in lower part of blade; T shaped wooden handle; flat copper wire coiled around the upper portion of handle; pummel covered in a ball of animal skin. |
| Length | 57.5 cm |
| Width | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1517 - Original Number |
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