Knobkerrie | Yale University Art Gallery

19th–20th century

Medium: Wood, copper, iron, and brass
Dimensions: 27 × 3 × 1 5/8 in. (68.6 × 7.6 × 4.1 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Paul F. Walter
Accession Number: 2021.2.2
Geography: South Africa
Culture: Zulu
Period: 19th–20th century
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

Egon Guenther Family Collection, Johannesburg, acquired in South Africa, in the 1960s; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, November 18, 2000, lot 172; sold to Paul F. Walter (1937–2017), New York; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, African Art from the Egon Guenther Family Collection, sale cat. (November 18, 2000), 112, fig. 171

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Object/Work type

knobkerries

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