Two ceremonial knives "dao" and a ceremonial spear

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Description

wooden shafts with encrusted black patina, the upper parts decorated with bunches of goats hair dyed in red and black, broad iron blades, fixed with an iron clip and rattan, slightly dam., paint rubbed off, traces of usage and corrosion, l: 72,5 cm; spear with wooden shaft, in some areas decorated with tufts of goat’s hair, dyed in reddish brown and cut in one length, fixed by plant fibre binding, lancet-shaped tip, iron nozzle at the bottom, with traces of corrosion, l: 176 cm

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Comparing literature

Somaré Grata, Vigorelli, Leonardo, The Nagas, Bergamo 1992, p. 27

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