Rare adze with prominent trident head · Uganda, Acholi · ID: 3045925
sold
EUR 350
Provenance
Dieter Schaffner, Groß-Gerau, GermanySize
L: 59,5 cm
L: 23.4 inch
Description
wood, iron, metal inlays (copper, zinc),
A comparable axe was collected by the Austrian ethnologist Rudolf Kmunke during his research trip through Uganda in 1911/12 at the Acholi (compare Zirngibl 1983, p. 140, Fig. 158).
Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A., Seltene afrikanische Kurzwaffen, Grafenau 1983, p. 140, ill. 158 Westerdijk, P., African metal implements, weapons, tools and regalia, New York 1984, p. 47, ill. 217a