KIRDI / MARGHI / BAGIRMI CURRENCY OBJECT 71, Chad / Cameroon

The curreny piece below has been vetted as authentic.


 

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KIRDI / MARGHI / BAGIRMI

CURRENCY OBJECT 71
27 1/2" high x 8" wide x 1/8" deep
Chad / Cameroon
$300

"While inspired by the large F-shaped throwing knives from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, and Sudan, this piece was certianly not designed for such use. With deliberately dull edges and a generally delicate construction, this type could have only functioned as a ceremonial object or currency object. Unfortunately, research on this uncommon type is insufficient. Interestingly, the incisions bear the characteristic mark of the incisions of Fur blades from Sudan - a stamped or rolled pattern that is both distinctive and not found elsewhere.

Comparable examples have been published in Elsen & Felix, Beauty in the Blade, 1998, and Lefebvre, Âmes de formes Formes de Lames, 2007.

This currency object is rare, albeit mid 20th century."

---Ethan Rider www.ertribal.com

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