- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife [.1] with pointed blade and wooden handle flared at the butt, covered with tinfoil. With wooden sheath [.2] with long crosspiece at the tip, all covered with tinfoil. [El.B 27/06/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Okavango River Andara
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1898
- Date collected
- 1898
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1949
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Tin Foil Metal, Material Iron Metal, Process Covered, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 147 mm, Width: max 147 mm, Length: max 249 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1949.8.69.1 Accession number: 1949.8.69.2 Other PRM accession number: 1949.8.69a Other PRM accession number: 1949.8.69b
- Research and responses
The location for this entry seems to be a town called Andara on the Okavango River. This is on the Caprivi Strip in Namibia, and area that was formerly British territory and part of Northwestern Botswana which lies only a short distance to the south. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 6/6/2000]
1949.8.69.1
Knife [.1] with pointed blade and wooden handle flared at the butt, covered with tinfoil. With wooden sheath [.2] with long crosspiece at the tip, all covered with tinfoil. [El.B 27/06/2007]
1949.8.69.1
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