[Conogre]

I recently posted a pic of the larger of these two pieces, along with another, in a current thread about Pira, with the comment being made that the blade style was not a known Moro form (true).
I recieved this 2nd piece today from a friend and to me the similarity in blades seems unmistakable, with much about the rest of it seeming, to me, to be Moro-like, which immediately brings to mind the Lumad tribes.
The 2nd knife is 16" overall with a 12" slightly recurved yatagan-like blade bearing a 3" sharpened portion along the top at the tip......I believe the blade itself was rf-forged from a file, as seen in the close up of the tip.
The hilt is a checkered dark hardwood with a 3/4" faceted brass ferule and a somewhat crudely cut designed brass guard on one end and has a brass wrapped pommel with a seperate brass cap plate, 2 small brass washer-type pieces and the tang peened over through them all.
The scabbard is made from two rather heavy hardwood slabs with a plain brass throat and toe, held together with copper wire in a twisted pattern that I've not seen (or at least noticed) before and which I think may have been the original method of securing the halves, based on discoloration of the wood matching the overlaying wire pattern.
I can give no real estimation of age other than to say that it definitely isn't a new piece, with the blade cleaned in the recent past.
The blade, by the way, curves inward from the spine for its entire length to the point that it seems to be a wide fuller from spine to the edge, where it swells slightly outward again, then back down to a razor edge.
I guess I'm asking 1) am I subconsciously seeing too much similarity in blade shape between the two pieces and 2) is the 2nd recognizable to anyone as a Lumad weapon?
My basic feeling/suspiscion is that both are from the area conventionally thought of as Moro, thus may indicate Lumad connections and even a tendency to a specific blade shape/type.
And no, I'm too hooked on unusual specimens to consider selecting just "normal" pieces in the future!**grin**
Comments? (please)