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Lot 7 : Sword «mandau» - Dayak, Indonesien
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Sword «mandau»
Dayak, Indonesien
the hilt wrapped with plaited plant fibres, a horn knob elaborate carved with partly open worked figural and ornamental motifs, iron blade with skewed endings, a two-parted wooden scabbard wrapped in artificially plaited plant fibres, decorated with fine incised ornaments, a second scabbard stretched with leather on the back, containing a knife with a long wooden handle, endpiece of bone, plaited plant fibre cord for support, an amulet attached;
used for head hunting and as a machete in daily life. According to a number of sources the small knife was used, among other things, to remove the soft parts of the enemies cut-off heads. The «mandau» is used by many peoples of Kalimantan and is widely spread.
H: 67,5 cm, (5005/003)
Lit.:
van Zonneveld, A.G., Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Leiden 2001, p. 87





