Subject: mercenary warrior
Culture: tribal Congolese = Azande, Mongo, Ngombe, others
Setting: Belgian Congo late 19th-early 20thc
Object: ikakalaka sword
Higgins Armory Museum > Scimitars to Samurai *
"Ikakalaka (short sword), 1800s-early 1900s
Possibly Kundu, Konda, Lia, Mpana, or Kutu people
Steel; brass; wood Weight: 14 oz." ...
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art > Weapons and Warriors: The Art of Armaments *
"African Knife
metal, wood" ...
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