Cult axe

Nigeria, Tiv

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Provenance

Swedish Collection

Size

H: 48 cm

H: 18.9 inch

Description

iron, bronze, long blade emerging from a head with high forehead comb, big disc-shaped ears and “hook” nose, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion

Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 15, ill. 6

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