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Tetela Knife from Congo
  • Tetela Knife from Congo
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  • 45 x 8 x 5 cm
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Old knives from the Tetela people in Congo. It is from the private Belgian collection of Sir Ali Berro. He was of Lebanese origin, arrived in the former Belgian Congo, in Elisabethville, in 1962, at the request of the UNESCO, missioned as a teacher until 1975. He has acquired during this period a certain number of pieces of collection with an ethnological interest.

  • Collections: African Bronze Objects of Utility

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