Rare prestige knife "ikulmbaang" or "ikuri banga" · D. R. Congo, Kuba · ID: 3045899
sold
EUR 280
Provenance
Dieter Schaffner, Groß-Gerau, GermanySize
L: 38 cm
L: 15.0 inch
Description
steel, copper, wood,
Only the oldest specimens of this knife type have these circular openwork copper inlays.
The object Rare prestige knife “ikulmbaang” or “ikuri banga” with the object ID 3045899 was part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction on November 16, 2019. The object with the lot number 368 achieved a sales price of EUR 280 with an asking price of EUR 250.
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Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Alexander Kubetz, Panga na visu, Riedlhütte 2009, p. 206, ill. 495