Ceremonial knife with brass handle and scabbard

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Description

steel,

The handle and the openwork scabbard are elaborately worked in the so-called “lost wax casting”. In contrast, the steel blade is extremely roughly forged.

Neyt remarked to a similar knife: “These beautiful weapons have been manufactured within a small ethnic group of the Bata territory of the Kapsiki and the Higi territory, north-east of Tiv territory”. (Neyt, 1985, p. 206)

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Comparing literature

Neyt, François, The Arts of the Benue, Michigan 1985, p. 205, ill. IV.55

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