Musele (other)
Musele or museles may refer to: * Musele (knife), a throwing knife used in eastern Gabon * Alexios Musele (other), list of people with the surname Musele and the given name Alexios * Museles, a wine produced in Xinjiang, China See also *Muselet, a wire cage that fits over the cork of a bottle * Muscle (other) *Mussel Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...

Musele (knife)
An onzil (or osele or musele) is a throwing knife of ethnic groups from eastern Gabon (Kota people (Gabon), Kota, Fang people, Fang, Mbete languages, Mbété). Uses Looking like an axe, the ''onzil'' has a hornbill, calao-shaped blade. Its handle, often made of wood, is covered with copper wire, iron or brass. Sometimes handles are made of ivory. The onzil served as sacrificial weapons or for the war. The Kota people (Gabon), Kotas called them ''osele'' or ''musele'', and the Fangs called them ''onzil''. The name remained. Early forms of this style knife, associated with the Fang people, had shorter straight handles. Kota people are neighbors of the Fang and likely from them adopted this style of knife.http://papke.med.ufl.edu/brian/Handfuls/V2%20Theo/chapter-8/1890-kota-bird-head.html Gallery COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Metalen werpmes TMnr 5938-2.jpg, Classical onzil Kota Onzil Axe.svg, Rare fish shaped onzil Bibliography * Jan Elsen, ''De fer et de fierté, Armes bl ...
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