Large blade with wooden handle

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Object Number 2020.3.56

Display Title Large blade with wooden handle

Descriptions

Inventory Description Blade, elongated flattened metal blade, inserted into carved wooden handle, small metal nail, two carved holes, burnt?

Classification

Knife

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Materials Metal Wood

Dimensions Overall: 32.5 × 3 × 1.9 cm (12 13/16 × 1 3/16 × 3/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.56

Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

Provenance

Collector Frank W. Marlowe

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