Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2016
Lot 469
An Ifugao hinalung knife Philippines with a rattan covered hollow handle
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £380
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Description
An Ifugao hinalung knife
Philippines
with a rattan covered hollow handle,
46cm long,
with an open wood scabbard and a ginnutu belt with twenty-two graduated shell discs and a scalloped central upud, and a scabbard with a boar's tusk and a ginnutu belt with twenty-four shell discs with red dyed rattan and a scalloped upud and a carved wood head. (3)
Provenance
The Luciano Federico Collection.