- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife, with flat trowel shaped blade and carved wooden handle. Along the handle there are ridges forming expanded bands around the circumference. [AB [OPS Move] 21/11/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Igbo
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 35 mm, Width: max 128 mm, Length: max 420 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.13.645 Other numbers: 5
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