40143

Nigerian Copper Bracelet, Antique Kuba Kingdom Knife

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 475.00 USD
Nigerian Copper Bracelet, Antique Kuba Kingdom Knife
SOLD
100.00USD+ buyer's premium (20.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 16 @ 07:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST

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Title: Nigerian Copper Bracelet, Antique Kuba Kingdom Knife
Description: Another Nigerian currency, per Ballarini, The Perfect Form: On the Track of African Tribal Currency, 2009, p. 148, Fig. 2.21, is the idang, a thin copper bracelet with raised bands top and bottom. See NNP edition, https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/541824, p. 257 (illustrated, top right). Also included: an antique ikul imbaang knife of the Kuba kingdom of central Africa. An impressive 15" long, this weapon sports a heavily-decorated iron blade and a carved wooden handle. See Opitz, pp. 162-63 (this piece illustrated, p. 163).
Low Estimate: 250
High Estimate: 475
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