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Subject: chief
Culture: Mangbetu
Setting: Mangbetu Kingdom, central Africa 18-19thc
Objecttrumbash sickle knife







* Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art > Weapons and Warriors: The Art of Armaments
"Congo Chief's Battle Axe
metal, wood"  ...




* National Museum of African Art
"Knife
Mangbetu peoples, Democratic Republic of Congo
Late 19th to early 20th century  Iron, ivory"  ...


Dallas Museum of Art > African Art *
"MANGBETU KNIFE
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Upper Zaire River region, Uele subregion,
Mangbetu people, 19th-20th century
Iron and ivory"  ...





* International Museum of Cultures
"Men's knife  nagata/nagala
Made of iron and wood"

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War *
"Mangbetu, Democratic Republic of Congo"