Sword-stick
Made by local craftsmen, this European-styled sword includes a re-used Michelin lorry tyre valve cap. It was confiscated by order of a court in Ghana, having been used in a quarrel between men from Upper Volta (now Burkina). Acquired in 1944.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 13/2003
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- metalleathercopper
- Common Name
- sword-stick
- Simple Name
- sword-stick
- Inscription Transcription
- Michelin & Cie Clermont Fd Val [?]
- Production Country
- Burkina Faso
- Production Year High
- 1944
