Knife

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Object Number 14-9-50/85409

Display Title Knife

Descriptions

Inventory Description Knife, iron crescent shaped blade, wooden handle wrapped with brass wire

Classification

Knife

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Congo

Materials Copper alloy , Wood , Steel

Dimensions Overall: 38.4 x 19.4 x 7.2 cm (15 1/8 x 7 5/8 x 2 13/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 85409

Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1914

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