sword
- Museum number
- Af1959,01.9
- Description
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Composite short sword with iron blade and carved wooden handle.
- Production date
- 1900-1918 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.50 centimetres
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Width: 7.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2.60 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; blade loose in handle.
- Acquisition date
- 1959
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1958:
1- Collected by the donor's husband during the 1914-1918 war in Northern Nigeria (Naraguta region) & the Cameroons Grasslands.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1959,01.9