Knife
Hausa · Cameroon
Reference: ARM-13
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- Height
- 36 cm
- Material
- Iron, wood and fibre ribbon.
Haussa knife from the Katsiki region in northern Cameroon. This knife serves both hunting as well as defense and some other common uses. Handle of clear…
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Full original description
Haussa knife from the Katsiki region in northern Cameroon. This knife serves both hunting as well as defense and some other common uses. Handle of clear wood, pyrogravured, with two nuclei of adjacent relief circles and two straps formed by parallel lines in relief that go towards the knob on one side and towards the blade on the other. The blade, pointed, is decorated with geometric lines. The sheath, leather, covered in braided fibre ribbon.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Last third of the century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Cameroon. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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