Trumbash

File:Brooklyn Museum 22.457 Knife Ivory Handle Trumbash.jpg

Trumbash with an ivory handle

A trumbash or trombash is a Mangbetu throwing knife from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Uses

Similar to a sickle, the trumbash was used as a throwing weapon or as currency. The handle is usually made of wood, but it can be made of ivory or bone. It is more or less decorated, according to the rank of its owner and the use that is made of it. The curved blade is made of iron.

Gallery

• File:African Trumbash - Mangbetu curved knife.jpg
• File:Brooklyn Museum 22.462 Knife Trumbash.jpg
• File:Trombash Mangbetu.jpg
• File:Knife - Mangbetu - Royal Museum for Central Africa - DSC06546.JPG
• Trumbash with a anthropomorphic handle
  Trumbash with a anthropomorphic handle
• File:Mangbetu knife 2.jpg

Bibliography

• Jan Elsen, De fer et de fierté, Armes blanches d'Afrique noire du Musée Barbier-Mueller, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2003,
• Tom Crowley, Andrew Mills, Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum, 2018