Zemanek-Münster

Dagger knife with scabbard ·  D. R. Congo, Tetela (Sungu) / Kusu / Mpama · ID: 3048257

sold EUR 1,600
Provenance
“White Fathers” (“Pères Blancs”), actually “Society of the Missionaries of Africa”, Mission Museum, Altkirch, Alsace / France (now disbanded) )
Size
L: 44 cm
L: 17.3 inch

Description

wood, steel, copper, brass, lizard skin,
A very similar knife illustrated in Zirngibl & Fischer, ill 229.
The knife scabbard originating from the Fang region.


Comparing literature

Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Werner Fischer, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 128, ill. 229


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