Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. African Dept · Cambridge, Mass., African dept. of the Peabody museum of Harvard university · leaf 297
instance, at the junction of theblades, is a cylindrical amulet case (?), represented as being made fast to the dumb-bellhilt by a twisted cord. In fig. 13 the blades have become more conventionalized than inthe other cases, and the hilt is more summarily treated. We may at this point return to the… … possibility of its relationship to the gold-weight shown in fig. 12 strike any but a prac-tised ethnologist. It is otherwise if we compare it with the weight in fig. 13 — if the bladesof the latter were a little more rounded at the ends, and if they were approached a littlemore closely together,…
African languages · Excavations (Archaeology)
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