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

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Broad-bladed iron knife with wooden handle
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Paddle
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Pueblo de las Canopas
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Scraper
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Blade
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