Sword

Object Number:

29-94-26

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Edo (Africa)

Provenience:

Nigeria
Benin Kingdom

Date Made:

18th - 19th century

Early Date:

1700

Late Date:

1899

Section:

African

Materials:

Brass

Description:

See von Luschan, Altertumer von Benin, p. 440, figs. 697a and c, and drawings at end of text volume, E 696 a and c. The sword is of brass, the blade completely covered with ornament, the spaces between the designs being thickly pitted. The hilt is of wood partly covered with thin plates of brass or bronze and with copper (?) wire. No. 136

Length:

100cm

Credit Line:

From various documented sources before 1929