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A WEST AFRICAN QUIVER AND ARROWS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
A WEST AFRICAN QUIVER AND ARROWS
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
Hausa People, with characteristic cylindrical leather body, elaborately embellished with tooling in geometrical motifs, dyeing, and applied woven strips together with lengthy fringed tassels and baldric. Containing 16 reed arrows with barbed steel tips and rawhide-bound nocks. First half of the 20th century. Light wear. Overall length 67 cm.
Condition III