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>Costume Studies

>>1878 Congolese warrior

>>>sword

>>>>kumu

Subject: mercenary warrior

Culture: tribal Congolese = Azande, Mongo, Ngombe, others

Setting: Belgian Congo late 19th-early 20thc

Object: kumu sword

* International Museum of Cultures

"DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD 'KUMU' KNIFE

USED BY CHIEF IN WAR"