Zemanek-Münster

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.


The object Bird’s head knife “musede” with the object ID 3035677 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 381.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 185, ill. 341


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