Headhunter Axe (Igorot)

The handle is studded with brass.

"gaman, pin-nang" in the Bontok language.
see: Kohnen, Norbert, 1986, Igorot. Everyday life and traditional ways of healing among Filipino mountain tribes, Triltsch Verlag Düsseldorf, p. 104

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