Thanks Changdao, good points, but still have never seen any accounts recorded of them in use. The only one example I could find in period context was in the French Foreign Legion museum in France said to have been 'captured' in 1857 in campaigns. It was presumed taken from a household taken over.
I have seen several images of Kabyles posed with these, but in static pose.
My point was not to derail the thread, but by analogy show the question of whether an ethnographic weapon was actually used, as with the matters concerning the koummya.
Khyber knives and yataghans were pretty well documented as used in combat, in various sources and illustrations, but I have to see any such record of a flyssa. I would be most pleased to see any such illustration.
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