- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Axe with elaborate openwork blade with twisted metal strands and a human head design. Socketed into ?copper covered wood haft [SM 09/07/2007]
- Long description
- Axe with elaborate openwork blade with twisted metal strands and a human head design. Socketed into ?copper covered wood haft. The axe blade has two projecting tips at the edges and a convex cutting edge between them. It has a human head design in relief on both surfaces. The blade is also decorated with an incised or punched zigzag pattern on both surfaces. [SM 09/07/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Kasai
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 01/1952
- Date collected
- By January 1952
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1952
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Copper Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Covered, Process Twisted, Process Nailed, Process Bound, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 350 mm, Width: max 230 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.5.25
1952.5.25
Axe with elaborate openwork blade with twisted metal strands and a human head design. Socketed into ?copper covered wood haft [SM 09/07/2007]
1952.5.25
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