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Descrizione : Prestige axe manzhi Kapsiki, Kamerun heavy brass, partly reddish patina, the lower part of the handle decorated with a plaited pattern, repeated on the blade with additional circular ornaments on both sides, min. dam., slight signs of corrosion, minor missing parts, their design, probably introduced by the Fali, is supposed to be a stylized rooster which is considered by the Fali to be holy. According to Wente-Lukas, the hatchets were used in earlier times at burial rituals and were carried by the brother or son of the deceased. H: 39 cm, (5042/014) Provenance Coll. Claire & Frederick Mebel, New York, USA Anthony Tirri, Miami, Florida Christie's, Paris, 2005, lot 12 Exposed in 1984 exhibited in New York/Flint, Michigan/Dayton, Ohio, Mourtala Diop, Dakar, 1995 at the Museum of African Art: Signs of power: The Mourtala Diop Collection, Nigeria - Cameroun Published in Tirri, Anthony C., Islamic and Native Weapons of Colonial Africa 1800 - 1960, o.O. 2007, p. 458, ill. 6-36, Westerdijk, P., African Metal Implements, 1984, p. 20, ill. 56 Literature Zirngibl, Manfred A., Seltene afrikanische Kurzwaffen, Grafenau 1983, p. 30
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