Sacrificial knife of Chief Bara, straight blade of 26.5 cm, - Lot 189

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Sacrificial knife of Chief Bara, straight blade of 26.5 cm, - Lot 189
Sacrificial knife of Chief Bara, straight blade of 26.5 cm, with nielloed and engraved back, brass handle with a character (representing the owner), a humped ox (symbolizing the reincarnation of an ancestor) and a duck, intercessor bird between the living and the dead, and sign of fecundity, TL 41 cm, used in Madagascar during the rituals of circumcision, XIXth century period (this type of sacrificial knife is reproduced in " Ancient Art of Madagascar " B.GOY 2015 page 113)
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