Knife (Mandau) and scabbard (c. 1900): Art, History and Details
Knife (Mandau) and scabbard at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1900, metal, wood, bone, hair, and braided cloth cord. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Knife (Mandau) and scabbard (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: Knife (Mandau) and scabbard
- Date: c. 1900
- Culture: Indonesia, Borneo
- Type: Arms and Armor
- Technique: metal, wood, bone, hair, and braided cloth cord
- Dimensions: Blade: 47.3 cm (18 5/8 in.)
- Collection: Oceanic Art
- Department: Oceania
- Accession number: 1916.745
A detail from the museum
Borneo is the third largest island in the world.
Collection credit
Gift of J. H. Wade
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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