Couteau de prestige ·  Gabon, Kota · ID: 3045895

Description

steel, brass, wood,
These knives serve as status weapons and objects of representation and can be up to 80 cm long. They are worn by the Kota, Kele, Nzabi, Mbete, Mbamba and other ethnic groups in areas of central and southeastern Gabon and the neighbouring Republic of Congo (Sanga region).

Littérature comparée

Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Alexander Kubetz, Panga na visu, Riedlhütte 2009, p. 96, ill. 202 compare AHDRC 0050919