Cerimoniale Staff – Lia / Nkundu / Konda – DR Congo

Iron, wood. cm. 66,5 high x cm. 10,7 width (26.18″ x 4.21); weight: grams 188,2 (6.63 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.

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