Bird's head knife "musede" · Gabon, Kota · ID: 3035677
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Size
H: 26,5 cm
H: 10.4 inch
Description
wood, metal, handle with conical knob wrapped with brass sheet, blade with triangular cutout (eye), min. dam., slight traces of usage and abrasion, base;
according to Himmelheber the beautiful curved blade represents a hornbill.
Comparing literature
Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 185, ill. 341