Couteau dague avec fourreau · R. D. Congo, Tetela (Sungu) / Kusu / Mpama · ID: 3048257
Vendu
1 600 €
Provenance
“White Fathers” (“Pères Blancs”), actually “Society of the Missionaries of Africa”, Mission Museum, Altkirch, Alsace / France (now disbanded) )Description
wood, steel, copper, brass, lizard skin,
A very similar knife illustrated in Zirngibl & Fischer, ill 229.
The knife scabbard originating from the Fang region.
Littérature comparée
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Werner Fischer, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 128, ill. 229