A NGOMBE CONGO AFRICAN CURVED SWORD

with metal hilt and wood pommel, 71cm long, two similar ditto curved swords and a similar African throwing knife with copper and fabric bound hilt, 69cm long (4)

Provenance: Adolphe Cryns (b. 1903, Wetteren – d. 1991) lived and worked in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) as an Operations manager for CITAS shipping from 5 Sep 1924 to 14 Jul 1933, thence by family descent