finally got my resizing together and got a few pictures of the scabbard as well as a couple more of my nicer mandau
1. detail of the tip of the painted scabbard
2. pair of my mandau which have almost identical grip decorations
3. one of the twins, this one has krowit the other does not
4. detail of the non krowit dragon
5. one of my first mandau and probably my oldest, would love your thoughts
6. detail of the dragon on the reverse
I finally have this figured out ,so, will slowly be showing my collection here, and would love for some help in placing them in both location and time, as well as likely tribe
thanks again in advance, really love mandau and the artistic culture that surrounds them; this forum is one of the places that really helped me understand what I was doing when I went to collect, appreciate especially the other mandau collectors who made me love the artifacts as much as they do.
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