KNIFE KNIFE From sub-Saharan Africa, good quality with iron blade and handle. Ri…

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KNIFE

KNIFE From sub-Saharan Africa, good quality with iron blade and handle. Ricasso metal guards and handle with careful engravings with Tuareg influence. 19th century. Note the non-repetition of the decorations on both sides. Rusty scabbard possibly from being in the scabbard for many years. In need of cleaning. Rare. Dim.:38 cm.

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Great head of the Nok culture. Nigeria. H with stand 31cm, H without stand 25cm, made of beige-brownish mottled terracotta with elaborate coiffure, arranged in two large bowls, pierced eyes and nostrils. This head probably comes from the same archaeological site as the following number. The Nok culture was originally estimated to date from 500 BC to 200 AD. According to new findings, however, it is thought to have developed between 1500 BC and 900 BC. It then experienced its heyday, from which the majority of known terracotta originates. This heyday came to an abrupt end around the turn of the millennium for reasons that are as yet unknown. It marks the transition from stone use to ironworking in central Nigeria and can also be considered the oldest Iron Age culture in sub-Saharan Africa, where bronze was only introduced after iron. The search for minerals, wood and precious stones in the middle of the 20th century and the construction of roads on the plains and plateaus on both sides of the Niger and Benue rivers have brought to light a large number of works of art from ancient indigenous cultures. However, the geological processes of erosion and accumulation in West Africa are of such intensity that large earth movements can be caused over the course of a few centuries. Apart from heads and figures only a few centimetres in size, which usually remain largely intact, the vast majority of the works of art unearthed are damaged or broken. As a rule, this is not a problem if all the parts belonging to the object can be found and professionally restored, as was apparently the case with the head being examined here. The rough and grainy surface of the untouched figures is also due to erosion. The formerly smooth engobe coating is weathered. One mop of hair partially broken off. Provenance: Ex Coll. Mareidi Stoll-Singer, Munich, in Germany since the 1970s.

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