A KAJAN-DAYAK MANDAU
Wide, curved, single-edged blade, the back chiselled at the weak, pierced and engraved, one side with a band, engraved and chiselled with geometrical motifs, the base with a curl; nice grip of typical shape, finely embossed and pierced, pommel with horsehair; wooden scabbard with fiber bands; leather suspension rope, braided and decorated with colored beads and three pendants. Scarce. West Kalimantan.
Borneo, 19th Century
length 58.5 cm.
Conditions: good
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Wide, curved, single-edged blade, the back chiselled at the weak, pierced and engraved, one side with a band, engraved and chiselled with geometrical motifs, the base with a curl; nice grip of typical shape, finely embossed and pierced, pommel with horsehair; wooden scabbard with fiber bands; leather suspension rope, braided and decorated with colored beads and three pendants. Scarce. West Kalimantan.
Borneo, 19th Century
length 58.5 cm.
Conditions: good