ANTHROPOMORPHIC rocket KNIFE - Iroquois or Huron culture, Great Lakes region, Canada - Circa 1850

ANTHROPOMORPHIC rocket KNIFE

Iroquois or Huron culture, Great Lakes region, Canada

Around 1850

Wood, steel and brass

H.: 38; L.: 4 cm

Indian knife with leafy blade in thick steel, the rocket is carved in wood in a succession of vertical grooves and finished in an anthropomorphic pommel. The miter consists of a ring of gilded brass.

Bibliography: A similar copy is kept at the Musée du Quai Branly.

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