A Zulu knobkerrie South Africa with copper and steel wire bands

A Zulu knobkerrie

South Africa

with copper and steel wire bands,

71.5cm long,

and a Zulu brass button necklace, mounted, framed and glazed. (2)

Provenance

By repute both the necklace and knobkerrie once belonged to Mzumeni Mchunu, a Zulu headman, which were subsequently given to historian Ron Locke, Hillcrest, Natal in 1994 by a relative of Mchunu, whilst interviewing the clan for his book Blood on the Painted Mountain.