40147

Restricted to High-Ranking Women and Chiefs

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 350.00 USD
Restricted to High-Ranking Women and Chiefs

Lot: 40147
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Title: Restricted to High-Ranking Women and Chiefs
Description: This strange double-pointed knife is called ikakalaka, made in the late 19th century in Zaire in the area around Lake Mayi Ndombe and Leke Timba. Such knives were carried by high-ranking women and by chiefs. See Opitz, p. 161. (Illustrated in NNP edition, https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/541824, p. 258, top left.)
Low Estimate: 200
High Estimate: 350
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