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ClassificationsAfrican Art

Ritual Cutlass

Place CreatedNigeria, Africa

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Dimensions20 in. (50.8 cm)

Object number2003.065.002

Exhibition HistoryAfrican Metal Implements: Weapons, Tools, and Regalia: Collection of Frederick and Claire Mebel, Hillwood Art Gallery, Greenvale, New York, 1984
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 3, September 26, 1998 - Spring 2003
Published ReferencesPeter Westerdijk, African Metal Implements: Weapons, Tools, and Regalia: Collection of Frederick & Claire Mebel (Greenvale, NY: Hillwood Art Gallery, 1984), 15, number 32.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May, 2004.

ProvenanceEx coll. Frederick (1913-1998) and Claire Mebel (1916-1994), New York, by 1984. Thence by descent to Steven and Elaine Schwartzreich, New York. Purchased by MCCM from the Schwartzreichs.

Status

Not on view

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