Sword
AF1093
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1093 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bapoto |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Brass | Leather | Iron | Wood |
| Description | Executioners sword. Crescent shaped iron blade; blade is ornamentally; protruding knob at base; base of blade is bound in leather; wooden handle wrapped with flat brass and iron wire; protruding from iron loop from pommel, pommel divided into three segments. Similiar to AF1092 through AF1099. |
| Length | 72 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 749 - Original Number |
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