Sword
AF1141
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Bangala District | Bapoto Town
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1141 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bapoto |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Bangala District | Bapoto Town |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Iron | Copper | Wood | Fiber |
| Description | Iron blade; blade is ornamentally incised, bottom half has a triangular shape with open casts slits; wooden handle, flat copper wire coiled around the lower half; twisted plant fiber knotted around handle. |
| Length | 70 cm |
| Width | 18.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1518 - Original Number |
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