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| Object |
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| Ritual knife - Songye - DR Congo |
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| Ethnic group |
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| Songye |
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| Origin |
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| Dr Congo |
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| Provenance |
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| Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany |
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| Material |
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| Wood and iron |
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| Size |
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| L: 38 cm |
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| Description |
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| Wood, light/blackened surface, short iron blade, handle crowned by mask face, small traces of corrosion/abrasion, base
Lit.: Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Werner Fischer, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 168, ill. 303 |
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