Arm Dagger
Arm Dagger
Azande / Kreish / Sere / Bongo or surrounding neighbors
Azande Kingdom - Dār Fertit - Bahr el Ghazail, Mahdist Sudan - Anglo Egyptian Sudan (South Darfur - Western Equatoria - Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan)
Late 19th - Early 20th century (ca. 1900)
Steel, elephant ivory, brass, leather, crocodile skin, fabric
Blade: 17,8cm
Hilt & Blade: 27,3cm
Hilt, Blade, Sheath: 29,2cm
Collection Date: 2022
Collection Number: 288
Ex French Art Market (2022)
A fine Sudanese arm dagger from the Azande People of the historic Dār Fertit and Bahr el Ghazail regions of South Sudan. The straight steel blade is double- edged having a shallow central fuller with two outside shallow fullers that converge near the spearpoint tip.
Elephant ivory hilt with a downward curving pommel. The hilt is decorated in black circle- dot and linear patterns. The tang is secured by a small brass pommel cap.
The leather sheath elaborately tooled with designs on both sides. Crocodile skin sewn mouth and chape terminating to a leather bound chape bulb (toom). Attached with a leather wrapped arm band with a fabric cloth interior. A fine, well- made example in good condition complete with its original sheath. Ca. 1900.
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