Metadata: Manslayer
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Gogo, attributed to | Manufacturer
- Title:
- Manslayer
- Date:
- 1800 (?) - before 1893
- Inventory Number:
- 1898-013/030
- Collection:
- Non european collections
- Domain:
- Arms
- Arts and Crafts
- Africa
- Designation:
- Baton (weapon)
- Iconography:
- Geometric form ornament
- The human body
- Material | Technique:
- Wood
- Description:
- The big end roughly mimics a clenched fist with the thumb protruding forward. The handle is decorated with intersecting, slightly notched lines. - Descriptive inventory by Nicolas Van Werveke of the Spring ethnographic collection. N.B.: this is a faithful transcription of Van Werveke's inventory, the terms used in 1898 have not been modified, even those whose use is considered critical today.
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Acquisition date:
- 1898
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Tom Lucas / MNAHA
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tina Pfeifer
