African axe

[Lew]

Originally Posted by ggoudie

Hi guys , need your impute on this one 18 inches long with nice tight zulu type brass wire work .Is this a real weapon ? cheers graeme . ps How do they do the wire work so perfectly ?

Hi ggoudie

The wire wrapping looks Shona to me the axe itself does not strike me as Zulu although it might have been traded at one point. My guess is that the axe is Tschokwe if I am spelling it correctly. Here are two examples the top one is Tschokwe and the bottom is Shona.

Lew