Cerimoniale Staff – Lia / Nkundu / Konda – DR Congo

Iron, wood. cm. 41,2 high x cm. 7,4 width (16.22″ x 2.91); weight: grams 105,0 (3.70 oz.).

Prestige scepter like this, dating from the colonial period, have sometimes been used in major barter transactions.

See tribal Arms monographs Volume 2 “Performing Knives and derivatives” of Christian Gosseau, Brussels 1997 Figs 87-88.