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Image Not Available for Small knife, iron blade, wooden handle with iron strip wound around it (mbako)
Small knife, iron blade, wooden handle with iron strip wound around it (mbako)
Image Not Available for Small knife, iron blade, wooden handle with iron strip wound around it (mbako)
Object Number 39-39-50/3883
Display Title Small knife, iron blade, wooden handle with iron strip wound around it (mbako)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term mbako
Inventory Description Knife, iron blade, tapered to point on end, incised 3R in partial triangular shape, wooden handle, wrapped in metal, dome shaped end
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bwamba
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Uganda
Additional Geographic Terms Bundibugyo; Fort Portal, 40 miles west of
Materials Iron Wood
Dimensions Overall: 5.4 × 29 × 4 cm (2 1/8 × 11 7/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 39-39-50/3883; ED/P 1-2-50/145

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