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Fine Ashanti Bronze Prestige Axe with Jackal & Serpents

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Fine Ashanti Bronze Prestige Axe with Jackal & Serpents

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A wonderful vintage cast bronze prestige Axe with a vivid Jackal head and many frog and snake designs, with a chameleon lizard inside the openwork axe head, accented with circular designs. Ashanti peoples, Ghana, West Africa. The Axe is solid bronze and measures 17.5 x 7 inches.

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Fine Ashanti Bronze Prestige Axe with Jackal & Serpents

Name: Fine Ashanti Bronze Prestige Axe with Jackal & Serpents
SKU: 71274531
Price: 120 USD
Availability: InStock

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