Collection Online as of January 25, 2021

Knife

1800s

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Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century

Iron, wood, and copper alloy

Overall: 57.4 cm (22 5/8 in.); Blade: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.)

Gift of J. H. Wade 1916.1022.a

Location

not on view

Provenance

Walter C. Hill, NY

Exhibition history

Standing on Ceremony: Traditional African Arms from the Donna and Robert Jackson Collection and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (April 24-November 27, 2004).

Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).

Standing on Ceremony: Traditional African Arms from the Donna and Robert Jackson Collection and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 24, 2004-March 15, 2005).