Gift of J. H. Wade · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Indonesia, Borneo · c. 1900
Knife (Mandau) and scabbard
Creator not recorded by the museum
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- metal, wood, bone, hair, and braided cloth cord
- Dimensions
- Blade: 47.3 cm (18 5/8 in.)
- Country / context
- Indonesia
- Movement / tradition
- Southeast Asian arts
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- Southeast Asian arts ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
Both a work of art and a weapon, blades of this type with elaborately carved and plumed hilts were used mainly by the Dyak people of Kalimantan, on the Indonesian Island of Borneo.
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