Metadata: untitled
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker
- Title:
- Spear
- Date:
- 1800 (?) - before 1893
- Period | Style | Movement:
- Époque contemporaine
- Inventory Number:
- 1898-013/040
- Collection:
- Non european collections
- Domain:
- Arms
- Africa
- Designation:
- Spear
- Material | Technique:
- Iron; Leather; Copper
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 146 x 3.1 x 2.9 cm
- Description:
- Sumali knife - The blade only becomes narrower at 9 cm from the tip. The handle, made of polished horn, ends with an iron ornament, quite well imitating an acorn placed between two battlements. The sheath, in parchment leather, rough on one side, is lightly decorated on the other; it is sewn to a red leather belt closing with a yellow copper buckle. - 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:
- Tom Lucas
