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An ikul or ikula is a knife or a short sword of the Kuba of the 
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They are ceremonial knives, some of which are made solely of wood (handle and blade) and richly decorated.Colleen E. Kriger: ''Pride of Men: Ironworking in 19th Century West Central Africa.'' Heinemann, 1999. , p. 170
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The ''ikul'' are about 35 centimetres long. According to tradition, King Shyaam aMbul aNgoong would have introduced the ''ikul'' in the seventeenth century after a long period of war. The king would then have forbidden the ''shongo'' sword to replace it with the ''ikul'', a symbol of peace.
File:British Museum Room 25 Wooden ikul Ikulintey Kuba people 17022019 4913.jpg, Ikul made of wood.
File:Ceremonial knife (ikul) - Kuba - Royal Museum for Central Africa - DSC05959.JPG, Ikul.
File:Raccolte Extraeuropee - Passaré 00377 - Pugnale Kuba - Rep.Dem.Congo.jpg, Ikul of the Kuba people.
File:Brooklyn Museum 54.148 Knife.jpg, Ikul in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
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The ''ikul'' consists of a leaf-shaped blade (iron or copper or wood) and a wooden handle finished with a round knob with sometimes decorative inlays. The blade has a well-marked central edge and can be decorated with engravings.Johanna Agthe, Karin Strauß: ''Waffen aus Zentral-Afrika.'' Dezernat für Kultur und Freizeit der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt, 1985. , S. 121 (Abb. 109) p. 303Christopher Spring: ''African Arms and Armour.'' British Museum Press, London 1993, , p. 89 f.Monica Blackmun Visonà et al.: ''A History of Art in Africa.'' Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2003. , p. 399Google-Digitalisat
They are ceremonial knives, some of which are made solely of wood (handle and blade) and richly decorated.Colleen E. Kriger: ''Pride of Men: Ironworking in 19th Century West Central Africa.'' Heinemann, 1999. , p. 170
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The ''ikul'' are about 35 centimetres long. According to tradition, King Shyaam aMbul aNgoong would have introduced the ''ikul'' in the seventeenth century after a long period of war. The king would then have forbidden the ''shongo'' sword to replace it with the ''ikul'', a symbol of peace.
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File:Brooklyn Museum 22.1521 Knife Ikul.jpg, Ikul.
Bibliography
* Jan Elsen, ''De fer et de fierté, Armes blanches d’Afrique noire du Musée Barbier-Mueller'', 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2003, * Laure Meyer, ''Art and Craft in Africa: Everyday Life, Ritual, Court Art'', 1995References
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