Knife
This knife (musele) is not a weapon. It is a mark of authority and status. Chiefs and ritual specialists of the Mungala secret society would own such knives. They were also used to mark the tombs of chiefs.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E564
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- Central Africa
- Material
- iron | copper | brass | |
- Common Name
- knife
- Simple Name
- knife
- Period Classification
- 19th century
- Production Town
- Production Country
- Gabon
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
- 1877
