Intersting Indian? Axe

[Andy Stevens]

This was a very cheap Ebay buy , it just looked intersting in the photos and I thought what the hell! The seller had it listed as being Indian and I thought it could be some type of Tabor or saddle axe.

The object is 87cm long . The head is 14cm x 8 cm and decorated with eye brow and star like markings. One of these stars has what looks like a trailing comets tail ?. The blade has been capped in brass. The head has been very well set into the haft with a figure 8 wedge.

The haft has been burnt decorated into a rather nice Tiger stripe effect. The brass plated area at the top has a series of eyes attached to which the seller thinks feathers would have been attached? The bottom of the object terminates in a iron spike.