Knife

Object Number:	42-30-581
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Batetela
Provenience:	Zaire Belgian Congo Katanga Province
Section:	African
Materials:	Iron Copper
Credit Line:	Gift of Mrs. Morgan Wing on behalf of the Estate of Florence C. Whitney, 1942
Other Number:	378 - Other Number

Description

Double-edged iron blade with pronounced medial ridge tapering to point; sides near tang sharply concave; band of grooves following contour of blade for 2/3 its length near opposite edges of the two faces. Crescent-shaped guard; grip cylindrical with wide offset 8 cm. from blade, beyond which it tapers towards end; all completely covered with sheet copper with impressed parallel line decoration, partly forming triangles.