£150 - £250
A TROMBASH THROWING KNIFE OF THE MANGEBUTI PEOPLE. The blade 27 x 19 cm of a pronounced hook form, with slender tapering point and four pierced holes towards the grip. On a flattened copper bound grip. 44.5 cm. "The Mangbetuti call their language mangbetuti, a language of the Nilo-Saharan group. There is a tradition that this tribe practiced cannibalism. In the mid ninetieth century when first discovered by the German explorer botanist and ethnologist Georg Schweinfurth, the King Munsa looked not unlike an Egyptian Pharaoh, Seated on a copper covered throne wearing a double crown and holding a copper trombash".
Some light surface scuffing and marks. Generally a good example. Collection number to the blade.
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