Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21 Sep 2023
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Two Mfunte knives and scabbards
Two Mfunte knives and scabbards
Cameroon
with shaped steel blades and hide covered wood handles, the bamboo scabbards with hippopotamus hide handles, with collection labels Working matchet Mfunte tribe, Bamenda. Forged at Kwedja, purchased at Ntong...June 1948,
57cm and 58.5cm. (4)