Sickle knife "trumbash" · D. R. Congo, Mangbetu · ID: 3042696
sold
EUR 1,400
Size
H: 38 cm
H: 15.0 inch
Description
wood, metal, curved blade with a hole, the wooden handle partly wrapped in wire, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion.
Such sickle-knives, by the Mangbetu called “trumbash”, come in the most diversified shapes. Their elaborately designed handles often make them to real objects of value.
Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Werner Fischer, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 67