- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sword [.1] with narrow straight blade, one half blackened on each side, with wooden hilt with burnt decoration. With wooden sheath [.2], with carved and burnt decoration in squares and lines, bound in four places with wire. [El.B 26/06/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Rwanda
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939
- Date collected
- By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Metal Wire, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Bound, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork
- Dimensions
- Length: max 580 mm, Length: max 505 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.7.52.1 Accession number: 1939.7.52.2
1939.7.52.1
Sword [.1] with narrow straight blade, one half blackened on each side, with wooden hilt with burnt decoration. With wooden sheath [.2], with carved and burnt decoration in squares and lines, bound in four places with wire. [El.B 26/06/2007]
1939.7.52.1
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