Please help me to identify this mandau

[Battara]

I will admit that the blade does look later than the rest of the piece.

[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

[NgajuPride]

Originally Posted by Battara

I will admit that the blade does look later than the rest of the piece.

Thank you for the information, appreciate it. Can you please give me more information about it, based on the carving, etc?

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

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