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Lot 403
Auction 104

Traditional knife "palitai" with scabbard

Indonesia - West Sumatra, Mentawai Islands
sold EUR 950
Provenance
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria
Size
L: 34,5 cm (knife)
48,5 cm (with scabbard)
L: 13.6 inch (knife)
19.1 inch (with scabbard)

Description

steel, wood, silver plate, bone or deer horn, minor missing part at the end of the hilt

Comparing literature

van Zonneveld, Albert G., Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Leiden 2001, p. 95

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