Tribal Art & Antiquities - 1st March 2017

Lot 297

A Worji war axe Bauchi Province

Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £420

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Description

A Worji war axe

Bauchi Province, Nigeria

with an open curved blade with incised decoration and inlaid copper circles with plaited hide binding, on a hide covered and part ribbed shaft, with museum number 56.24.698. and with Liverpool and Norwich Castle Museum labels,

66cm long.

Provenance

Arthur Holdsworth Groom, District Officer, Nigeria 1905 - 1917

Loaned to the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1911 and subsequently to the Liverpool Museum.