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Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria
Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria
Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria
Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria
Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria

Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria

$ 131.97

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
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  • Original/Reproduction: Original
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  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

    Description

    Old African Currency - Prestige Knife - VERE / DADIYA - North Eastern Nigeria
    Forged iron.
    Cm. 64,0 high (25.20″); weight: grams 642,0 (16.30 oz.).
    These knives were used as a means of barter by Vere and, above all, by the Dadiya, an ethnic group on north-eastern Nigeria.
    Composed of a blade in wrought iron and a handgrip made of an iron strip wound into a spiral, with fan-shaped tooling.
    For a similar example see:
    - “The Perfect Form”, by Roberto Ballarini, page 171.
    - “African Currency”, by Adolfo Bartolomucci, page 60.
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