Ceremonial hatchet · D. R. Congo, Yakoma · ID: 3043004
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Size
H: 32,5 cm
H: 12.8 inch
Description
handel made from forged iron, brass blade, ormanetal incisions, traces of corrosion.
There is surprisingly scant information available about these small axes, other than that they were ceremonial dance implements from the early 20th century, most likely the 1910s and 1920s.
Comparing literature
Felix, Marc Leo (ed.), Fatal Beauty, Brussels 2013, p. 63, ill. 65