Throwing knife with angled blade, long broad triangular tip, incised with lines and crosshatched lines. With wooden handle covered with leather except for the very end. [El.B 4/6/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Throwing knife with angled blade, long broad triangular tip, incised with lines and crosshatched lines. With wooden handle covered with leather except for the very end. [El.B 4/6/2007]
Geographical reference: Congo, Democratic Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of; Congo, Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Republic of; Central African Republic
Africa > Central Africa > Central African Republic; Ubangi River
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Stevens Auction Rooms
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1906
Date collected: Before 1906
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1906
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Covered
Dimensions: Length: max 530 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1906.65.3
Research and responses: Ubangi River also spelled OUBANGUI, largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River, marking the
border between Congo (Kinshasa) and Congo (Brazzaville). The Ubangi is formed by the union (near Yakoma, Congo [Kinshasa], on the border of the Central African Republic) of the Bomu and Uele (Welle) rivers, and it then flows west for about 350 miles (560 km). It bends northeast of Bangui and flows a somewhat longer distance southwest. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 3/5/2000]

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