Sword knife ·  Cameroun, Tikar · ID: 3041209

Description

wood, iron, typical blade form, elaborate handle decorated with brass tags and copper wire, min. dam., traces of corrosion, base;
the typical sword-knives with squared-off blades are both weapons and signs of rank and prestige. They are also used at burials of great chieftains by dancers. The metal tones of the swords being struck against each other accompany the dark beat of the drums.

Littérature comparée

Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 37, ill. 46