Throwing Knife / Prestige Scepter (pingha)

1800–mid-1900s Overall: 45.5 cm (17 15/16 in.) Source image
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Throwing knives (pingha, plural kipinga) were historically used by elite Zande men as weapons in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Carefully calibrated, they would spin when thrown or balance on the shoulder when taken into battle. Kipinga were not everyday weapons, but consider...

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