Please help me to identify this mandau

kai · 18th October 2022, 12:01 AM

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

18th October 2022, 12:01 AM	#3
kai Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,236	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