Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle

Made:
1851-1900 in Nigeria
maker:
Yoruba people
Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle, matchete-like blade

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Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle, matchete-like blade
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Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle, matchete-like blade, curved and flared towards tip, ceremonial and amuletic, smallpox ju-ju, Yoruba, Nigeria, 1851-1900

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657212
Materials:
iron and handle, wood
type:
knife
credit:
Johnson, C.G.