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Object Number
2000.29.7
Display Title
Currency, throwing knife
Descriptions
Object Description
Throwing knife, club-knife, or saber with wooden handle; currency
Inventory Description
Knife, throwing, iron blade, curved and barbed at top, carved wood grip
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Yangere?
- Hausa?
- Gbaya?
- Bumali?
- Njem?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Africa / Central African Republic
Africa / Sudan
Africa / Nigeria
Africa / Central African Republic
Africa / Sudan
Africa / Nigeria
Materials
Iron, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 49.5 x 14 x 3 cm (19 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2000.29.7
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. Rapoport, MD and Jane Hughes
Provenance
Collector
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
Donor
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
Donor
Jane Hughes
(12/10/2000)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000.29.4 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Cameroon?
| |
| 2000.29.3 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.107 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Chad
Cameroon Nigeria | |
| 2000.29.25 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Central African Republic
Chad Cameroon | |
| 2000.29.10 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.5 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Nigeria
Congo | |
| 2000.29.8 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.2 | Currency, throwing knife |
Knife
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.102 | Currency, throwing knife, ornamental |
Knife
|
Ghana?
| |
| 2000.29.1 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
Chad Cameroon | |
| 2000.29.11 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.12 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Gabon
|