Lot: 48

93rd Tribal Art Auction

Sword with sheath

Indonesia - Borneo (Kalimantan), Mandau

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
L: 24.6 inch This object is not available anymore.

iron, wood, rattan, horn,
On the scabbards back, we see a second, small scabbard made of palm leaf in which a small secondary knife "piso raout" is kept.


van Zonneveld, Albert G., Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Leiden 2001, p. 87, ill. 337