Sword "mandau" · Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak · ID: 3051277
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, AustriaSize
L: 77 cm
L: 30.3 inch
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.
Comparing literature
van Zonneveld, Albert G., Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Leiden 2001, p. 86 f.