Execution knife with broad, flat blade, curved at the tip and with a scalloped edge opposite the cutting edge. [JC [OPS Move] 23/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Execution knife with broad, flat blade, curved at the tip and with a scalloped edge opposite the cutting edge. [JC [OPS Move] 23/11/2016]
Long description: Execution knife with broad, flat blade, curved at the tip and with a scalloped edge opposite the cutting edge. The base of the blade is bound to the handle with plaited strips of leather; just above this the blade is fluted. The wooden handle extends down into two large flares before terminating in a knob at the butt. The upper part of the handle is bound in brass strips while the flares and butt are covered in a brass plate, decorated with brass nail-heads. [JC [OPS Move] 23/11/2016]
Geographical reference: Congo, Democratic Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of
Cultural groups: Ngala
Person: Field collector Charles Robert Stonor; PRM source Charles Robert Stonor
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1967
Date collected: By 1967
Acquisition information: Donated: 1967
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material Brass Metal, Process Bound, Process Decorated, Process Beaten, Process Plated
Dimensions: Length: max 624 mm, Width: max 143 mm, Depth: max 81 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1967.18.1
Research and responses: According to the Ethnologue Online, the Bangala live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as opposed to the People’s Republic of Congo. [CW 28/9/2000]