1923.2.14

Knife with wooden waisted handle and rounded pommel; the blade is narrow and sharply pointed with incised zig-zag decoration. The handle has a leather covering. The register states it is a Moshie (Mossi, Burkina Faso) knife, although it was probably collected in Ghana. Collection of Capt Robert Powley Wild.

Burkina Faso

1900 - 1923

20th century

iron alloy, wood, leather

Moshie knife, Evidence in criminal case, Obuasi, Ashanti, West Africa R.P. Wild Colln