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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1986.4.93 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name knife Description Parade or club knife with a double-edged blade decorated with rope pattern lines. A copper alloy mount is attached to the top of the fore shaft with brass wire. The ball wrapped in raffia on the hilt is a protective medicine bundle. Likely Bapoto or Ngombe in design. Creator Rev Marker (artist)‎ Production place River Kwango, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa Production period Colonial Dimensions length: 610.00 mm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1986.4.93
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

knife
Description

Parade or club knife with a double-edged blade decorated with rope pattern lines. A copper alloy mount is attached to the top of the fore shaft with brass wire. The ball wrapped in raffia on the hilt is a protective medicine bundle. Likely Bapoto or Ngombe in design.
Creator

Rev Marker (artist)‎
Production place

River Kwango, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
Production period

Colonial
Dimensions

Details