IDNO

P.74508.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of a “Knife (Chipulo) of the Yoas with grooved one edged blade and haft of hippopotamus ivory. “Yoa knives always have these grooves and a single edge to the blade’ (Werner). Yoas near Blantrye, Nyasaland.” [from MAA Object record E.1896.31]

Place

C Africa; Malawi; Near Blantyre [Nyasaland]

Cultural Affliation

Yoa

Named Person

Photographer

?Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

?Chapman, Henry Arburn (Esq.); Werner (Miss) Collection [Object Donor]

Date

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope now numbered C461/ which was found in Bay C Drawer 39.

Publication: Chapman, Henry Arburn, 1904. A Handbook to the collection of antiquities and other objects exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2nd ed. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) viii, 79 p. : ill., plates, plans (fol.) ; 21 cm. [JD 1/4/2010]