Ceremonial knife with brass handle and scabbard ·  Nigeria, Vere / Nigeria-Cameroon border area, Bata · ID: 3051284

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)

The object Ceremonial knife with brass handle and scabbard with the object ID 3051284 was part of the auction Auction 104 on April 12, 2025. The object with the lot number 413 achieved a sales price of EUR 450 with an asking price of EUR 400.

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Comparing literature

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