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A FINE MENDE KNIFE
The hilt with head finial, its ringed neck forming the grip, ridged coiffure with two tall ridges at the centre, two metal bands about the grip, curved iron blade, dark glossy patina
52cm. long
The hilt with head finial, its ringed neck forming the grip, ridged coiffure with two tall ridges at the centre, two metal bands about the grip, curved iron blade, dark glossy patina
52cm. long
Literature
Lamp. F., House of Stones, Memorial Art of Fifteenth-Century Sierra Leone, in The Art Bulletin, Vol. LXV, number 2, June 1983, New York, P. 226, fig. 17
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