Sudan, Tabi hills, Ingessana, length 78 cm

http://www.africanarms.com/gallery?jean-baptiste-sevette-ingessana-1983

This typ was called muder, the scorpion, a depiction of which always appears on at least one side. Other creatures, or only their tracks, might also be shown. The Ingessana spoke of the head, neck, breast and leg of the knife; on the neck was incised a pattern representing the monitorlizard, whose skin was in fact used to make the neckbands of these people.

Lit.: Felix; Kipinga: S.91 Nr.31
Westerdijk; The African Throwing Knife: S.170 ff
Dr.W.Junker's Reisen in Afrika; I/226
Barnim, Adalbert von - Hartmann,Robert; Reise des Freiherrn Adalbert von Barnim durch Nord-Ostafrika in den Jahren 1859/60.(Litho in Brockhs.Katalog 150, S.53)
Christopher Spring; African arms and armour: S.13 - Abb.6 (1868)
German, Dr.P. (1922): Afrikanische Wurfeisen und Wurfhölzer: Tafel I Nr.1 - 68,5 cm
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers; Primitive Warfare - in Spring
Heinrich Schurtz; Das Wurfmesser der Neger (1889): Tafel I , Nr.18
L.F.Nalder: in Sudan Notes and Records, plate X