Two broad-bladed iron knives

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Object Number 2004.24.30671

Display Title Two broad-bladed iron knives

Descriptions

Keywords

Ethnographic
Manufacture and General Utility

Subject

Knife
Iron

Department Photographic

Date 1984

Artist Hillel S. Burger

Culture

Bagunda

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Cameroon

Additional Geographic Terms Equatorial Bantu; Cameroon, southern

Materials Negative, black and white

Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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