Hello IainN, i have seen these two swords some times ago on the great site you have posted and indeed are very beautiful and elegant. Maybe a month ago i have watched a sword of this kind on ebay, but for some damned motivation i don't bid on it (ah, my memory!!). I never see the Mayoko tribe on books, or maybe i don't remember (again my memory), but the hilt is identical to the ones of the Mangbetu knives-short swords. Maybe the Mayoko are a population in the bigger group of the Mangbetu. Moreover the sword on ebay showed a leather scabbard that was a transitional type from the Mangebutu ones and the Sudan ones (quite similar to the second one you have posted). Also the length is more near to a kaskara that not a mangbetu knife.
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