Hutu sickle sword/axe
 

First of all, hello!
My name is Sebastiaan Mook and I'm a small time collector of everything that looks cool to have.

I just bought a Hutu sickle sword/blade.
(the advert should be disappearing soon of the web, but it might still be there)



Its not this one, the handle is a little different, for the rest its identical.
The handle in my case if wrapped in rope.

What I would like to know, is the probable date of manufacture of these kind of weapons?
I have a hard time finding any good info about it on the web..

Kind regards,

Sebastiaan Mook

Welcome Sebastian. I look forward to seeing pictures of your blade.

Ian.

Oh I kind of messed up with the pics the last post, but, it finally arrived so these are the right photo's!
I bought it for 30,- euro's. The seller could only tell me it was from Rwanda and that his uncle brought it with him a long time ago.
Sooo, how old can it be? And is it Hutu for certain?

Oh! I just found my knife/blade on the website of the Leids museum of... Folkstudies? (volkenkunde)

link!

Hello Sebastian!

Your link implies Equatorial guinea...

But I have no idea how widely this style may reign. :shrug:

spiral

Yeah, I noticed that some of these blades seem to be pretty wide spread.
Because I certainly saw Rwanda as its place of origin several times, but even within Rwanda a dozen tribes used them apparently.

Indeed , I haven't checked but Id guess Equatorial guinea is near on 2000 miles from Rwanda?

Have you checked the pitt rivers collection? Id guess it may have some relevant pieces..

spiral