Five sickle weapons · D. R. Congo · ID: 3045938
sold
EUR 550
Provenance
Adalbert von Alföldy, Eislingen, Germany (a) and (d)acquired 1975-1978 (a, b, c, d, e)
Hubert Pettenkofer, Passau, Germany
Description
a) Mongelima / Boa / Hanga / Angba / Mba / Benge, steel, wood, copper, l: 88 cm; b) Bandia / Boa, steel, wood, rattan, l: 78 cm; c) Nsakara / Bangala, steel, wood, plantfibre, metal, l: 65 cm; d) Iboko / Ngombe / Mbanja, metal, with copper inlay at the blade, l: 63 cm; e) Mongelima / Boa / Hanga / Angba / Mba / Benge, steel, wood, l: 75 cm
Comparing literature
Elsen, Jan, Tribal Arms Monographs, Vol I, No 1, Brussels 1996, p. 58, ill. 91 (a / e) - p. 42, ill. 51 (b); Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Werner Fischer, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 95, ill. 165 (c) - p. 101, ill. 177 (d)