Big, old dagger.
Tebbu style handle, upper part of which + pommel evokes tribes from Mandara Mts region (Kirdi, Matakam, Chamba etc.), blade engravings not Tebbu, but more like south Tuareg and Fulbe ... There is similar short sword here:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=Chamba
- under Iainīs entry - book "Die Materiell Kultur der nicht-islamischen Ethnien von .....", Picture No 297 (but no tribe mentioned ....). Or - am I trying to "sort to boxes" too much ?
Any ideas are welcome. Thanks
Martin