Gbaya-Bumali, Central African Republic, 1st third... Lot 23

Gbaya-Bumali, Central African Republic, 1st third of the 20th century Sickle type weapon The handle is made of wood, the blade is enlarged at its end and finished with two oblique and opposite points and decorated with a copper pastille. Wood, iron, copper. Length. 51,5 cm. Provenance : Collected in-situ by Fernand OLIVEDA, Knight of the Legion of Honor and Chief Administrator of the colonies from 1888 to 1930 (Madagascar, Senegal, Congo). In 1925, he was Chief of the Secretariat of the General Governor of the Middle Congo. Literary reference: "Beauté Fatale", weapons of Central Africa. Crédit Communal, 1992, page 148, figure 190.