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Two Dayak Mandau Headhunter swords and sheaths, Dayak people,…
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Melbourne
Date:
20-Feb-2023
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Two Dayak Mandau Headhunter swords and sheaths, Dayak people, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, late 19th century, the iron blades with shaped bone and wood hilts, carved with scrolls and leeches motifs, entwined with matted rattan and decorated with tufts of horsehair, one with accompanying pisau rault (whittling knife), each with carved wood sheaths. Length 75 cm
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Unclassified