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Lot 304:
Description
Hadendoa People, with characteristic ebony X-form grip, with silver wire wrap intact. The handwrought, curved blade with slight central ridge and double edged, expanding precipitously at the tip. In its tooled leather scabbard with original matching belt. Mid-19th century. Minor wear. 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 of belt 82cm./32 1/3 inches. Condition III
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