28" overall (1995)
Damascus steel, silver, bronze, fossil sea cow bone, Madagascar ebony.
This is
an ancestral axe with the helmed skull of SHI AK on the face of the piece
and the fore part of the haft being made up of the fore arm bones of the deceased
to show his pledged service to his ancestral clan founder in the afterworld.
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