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Originally Posted by Battara
I will admit that the blade does look later than the rest of the piece.
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Thank you for the information, appreciate it. Can you please give me more information about it, based on the carving, etc?
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Originally Posted by kai
Welcome to the forum, Jef!
This piece looks real to me. Some more pics would be good!
However, as you already noted, the blade looks off: My current guess would be that this was a genuine mandau blade, possibly in fairly poor state of preservation. Someone decided to do a deep, non-traditional wax resist etch which also resulted in a lot of the blade getting lost to erosion.
Regards,
Kai
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Thank you Kai!
I started to collect Dayak's weapons a few years ago. I have a little collection of mandaus, but just a few are old, mostly are new made (but not the tourist version). I own duhungs, sipet/blow pipe, and lunju/spears. Sadly i found this forum a little too late. It would provide me a lot of information is needed to start collecting as beginner.
Here is the other pictures of this "mandau". I hope you can give me some insight about this mandau's origin and age by seeing these pics.
Thanks in advance
Jef