Couteau cérémonial avec poignée et fourreau en laiton jaune · Nigeria, Vere / Région de la frontière entre le Nigeria et le Cameroun, Bata · ID: 3051284
Vendu
450 €
Provenance
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, AustriaDescription
steel,
The handle and the openwork scabbard are elaborately worked in the so-called “lost wax casting”. In contrast, the steel blade is extremely roughly forged.
Neyt remarked to a similar knife: “These beautiful weapons have been manufactured within a small ethnic group of the Bata territory of the Kapsiki and the Higi territory, north-east of Tiv territory”. (Neyt, 1985, p. 206)
Littérature comparée
Neyt, François, The Arts of the Benue, Michigan 1985, p. 205, ill. IV.55