腕飾り - アグル - オモ渓谷 - Nyangatom - Ethiopia - ロット 10X 手首用ナイフ

Whole collection 10X lot ancient Nyangatom wrist knives from Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Dimensions: the width of each piece goes from 12.8 cm till 14.6 cm.

Name: the Karamojong word for this type of knife is Agul (pl. Nagulya).

Used by Nyangatom tribe, a tribe of the Karamojong cluster, sited in Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia.

Materials: iron. The scabbards which protect the knives are made by warthog skin (3X) and antelope skin (7X).

Some informations:

The present inhabitants of Karamoja are the Karamojong tribes. The main Karamojong tribes are 7: the Matheniko ("The Bulls"; Moroto area), the Bokora ("The Turtles"; Kangole area), the Pian ("The Lightings"; Namalu area), the Jie ("The Warriors"; Kotido area), the Dodoth ("The Ostriches"; Kaabong and Kidepo area), the Jiye (The Jie of South Sudan), the Nyangatom ("those of the yellow trumpet"; Omo valley, Ethiopia and nearby South Sudan-Ethiopia border), scattered all along the Karamojong area. The Karamojong tribes are related to Masai people, forced to move centuries ago from their original lands located in Ethiopia by the arrival of arabian tribes from the north. The wrist knives are a special handmade article of all Turkana tribes, findable just in north-eastern Uganda, north-western Kenya and southern Ethiopia, used since ancient times as weapon, to defend, to attack, and for daily works. The wrist knives were used in the past among the tribes as a very valuable currency too. We found these Nyangatom wrist knives on 1986 in Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia.