Interesting African dagger
 

Picked this up for about $5 Recently made but exhibits a well made blade at about 6 inches in length.the wooden hilt has a step design that bites the hand during a thrust. It arrived today I cleaned the blade and smoothed down the hilt and gave it a coat of wax. Will post new pics tomorrow.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/370746169116...84.m1497.l2649

Nice design for the handle, original, never see something like this before.

As promised :)

Interesting dagger and good to have a such well resarched and believable orign from the dagger. :)

Sometimes the honest description of the place (and date) of collection of specific weapon adds to this hobby another dimension....

The blade seems to have a style similar to many blades around the Victoria lake. It could be older than the handle and I would suggest that it has been recycled for this new knife. The handle seems made of palm tree but I wait for a confirmation. Nice new or almost new knife. I would be curious to know if it is a typical Karamojong knife.