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African Art / Works from the Swiss collection of Walter Schwab

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 05:00 PM • Milan

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NGATA, NGOMBE Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Estimate

€ 500 - 600

Sold

€ 896

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

h 71 cm
Northern region, high course of the Ngiri River (Ngombe), mouth of the Congo River (Doko).
Knife.
Forged iron blade with external shearing engraved on both sides.Wooden handled wrapped on its lower part with iron twin lead and decorated with brass tacks. Glaze from the era.

Literature

GOSSEAU CHRISTIAN, Tribal arms monographs: Le couteau d’exécution et ses dérivés, Vol. I, N° 2, partie II” Bruxelles 1997, pag. 34 (527);