knives, arms, arms, hunting

Throwing knife with ivory handle and metal blade.
Throwing knife with ivory handle and metal blade. Curved blade, with two small notches on the outer edge, one on the inner cutting edge. Three holes punched through base of blade, incised close to handle. Section cut out across centre of ivory handle. Original classification: "A: Knives, swords, spears, spear throwers"

Wellcome Trust

Congo, Democratic Republic of

metal (material), elephant bone, ivory

carved, forged (metal), decorated, drilled, beaten

LDUEC-A.0002

UCL Ethnographic Collections