Cleveland Museum of Art

Knife (Mandau) and scabbard

Date

c. 1900

Medium

metal, wood, bone, hair, and braided cloth cord

Culture

Indonesia, Borneo

Department

Oceania

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. Borneo is the third largest island in the world.

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