Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Dayak sword mandau

Borneo, Indonesia

the steel blade with inlaid gilt lines and dots, the top of the end piecred dots and with cut decoration, with a fibre and leather bound carved bone handle decorated a beast mask and scrolls, with inset hair, 70cm long, in a wood scabbard with an aluminium and bone mounts, with fibre bindings,

78cm long. (2)