Asymmetric Prestige Blade
Bandia / Nsakara, D.R. Congo
Brass, vegetal fiber
Early 20th century

An interesting prestige blade that mimicks functional sickle blades from the region, but here the spur is placed on the right side.

Published: Lefebvre, Luc, The Throwing Knives, Vol. 2, 2017, plate 245. Two other related examples are published in Lefebvre, and another is published in Felix, & GE (Eds.), Fatal Beauty: Traditional Weapons from Central Africa, 2009, (Orange edition), plate 165. 

11.5 in :: 29 cm

InventoryID #13-1983

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