Sword "mandau"

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Description

iron, bone / deerhorn, goat hair, fibre cords with tiny glass beads,

The “mandau” was traditionally used when hunting heads, and as a machete in daily life.

The sword is kept in a wooden scabbard with a second smaller scabbard “apis” made of palm leaf attached to the back, in which an additional knife “piso raout” is stored. Complete with a rattan sling with a piece of bone as a clasp.

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Comparing literature

van Zonneveld, Albert G., Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Leiden 2001, p. 86 f.

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