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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Knife Replica (Mugusu)
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Knife Replica (Mugusu)

Maker Lega
Object number81.17.867
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistoryCleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, July 10 - Sept. 1, 1968 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Oct. 10 - Dec. 1, 1968). Text by William Fagg. Cat. no. 277, reproduced (as Billhook). Los Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., pp. 119-20, reproduced pl. 156 (as bill hook).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions11 5/8 x 2 1/2 x 9/16 in. (29.5 x 6.4 x 1.4 cm)
MediumBone
Chinese
mid 18th-mid 11th century B.C.
Object number: 53.96
Chinese
mid 18th-mid 11th century B.C.
Object number: 53.97
Chinese
mid 18th-mid 11th century B.C.
Object number: 53.98
Throwing knife
Congolese
20th century
Object number: 81.17.1677
Congolese
Object number: 2001.963
Knife
Congolese
20th century
Object number: 81.17.810
Knife
Kundu
Object number: 81.17.811
Sickle knife
Congolese
20th century
Object number: 81.17.819
Knife
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.820