Kira (knife)
| Kira (knife) | |
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| Weapon type: | knife |
| Designations: | Kira |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Australia , Tjingili tribe |
| Distribution: | Australia |
| Overall length: | about 9 cm to about 16 cm |
| Handle: | natural rubber, tree resin, feathers, fur, clay |
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The Kira is a knife from Australia .
description
The Kira has a straight, double-edged quartzite blade . The blade is made by chipping off stone fragments. It usually has a triangular or trapezoidal shape. The booklet can be designed in different ways. It is made of wood that is either glued to the blade with natural rubber and decorated with yellow and black and white dot-shaped patterns, or it is glued to the blade with the help of tree resin and colored with red ocher . The sheaths can also be made differently. The sheaths are usually wrapped from paper that is obtained from the bark of the Cajeput tree ( Melaleuca leucadendra ). This paper is cut into strips and placed lengthways on the blade. It is then wrapped with fur , plant fibers or human hair . The inside is coated with clay and the lower end is decorated with cockatoo or emu feathers . This knife is used by Tjingili Aborigines in Australia.
literature
- Sir Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen, The northern tribes of central Australia , Macmillan and Co., limited, 1904, p. 751
- Sir Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen, The native tribes of central Australia , Macmillan, 1899
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tjingili in Norman Tindales Catalog of Australian Aboriginal Tribes (English) Retrieved on 1 July 2014
- ↑ George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, page 360, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5