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Maker(s):Unknown
Title:Dagger
Type:Armament; Fishing/Trapping/Hunting
Place Made:Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
Accession Number:  MH SK L.A.3.8
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: A wide thin bladed dagger, sharpened on both edges and pointed, 7 7/8" x 1 3/4". Handle of a soft wood, bound with brass wire, and terminating in a 3" by 2 1/2" flat oval, studded on the edge and one face with brass headed tacks. Scabbord of the same soft wood, studded on one face with brass headed tacks, the point bound with brass wire, and with a transverse hole bored through a ridge near the top for a lanyard.
Weight: 4 ozs. Cat. 10/6/1935.

Tags:
knives

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