AUCTIONS IMPERIAL JUNE 2020 ARMS & ARMOR
Lot 292:
Description
Hadendoa People, with characteristic ebony X-form grip, with silver wire wrap intact. The handwrought, curved blade with slight central ridge and double edges. In its tooled leather scabbard with fine, filigreed silver mounts. Mid-19th century. Blade with rough tool marks, scabbard split at one side. The Hadendoa supported the Mahdi during the Anglo-Sudan Wars. They were superb warriors who broke the British Infantry Square. They were known by the British soldiers as Fuzzy Wuzzies, and immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his dialect poem of the same name in 1892. Overall length 36.3cm. Condition IV
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