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Hi folks
I just received this along with some 19C N.African swords. Its really quite a nice knife, and better quality than many I've seen. Its not something I know anything about - possibly Manding/Mali? Seems to have some age, but for all I know might be a standard tourist item. Any pointers so that I can write something sensible on the tag gratefully received. /Chris |
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Hi Chris,
This is not a tourist item at all! It's a Mandingo dagger that you can find from Senegal to Ivory coast I guess. Very nice... The holes in the blade make me think that your dagger is connected somehow to Caboverde and Spanish influences. So probably a 19th c. dagger from the coast. Kubur |
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Kubur has already given you all the correct info. I can only add that a knife with a similar hilt is the first item shown in "Panga Na Visu", where Zirngibl identifies it as Mandingo based on the leatherwork and states that these are encountered from Senegal all the way to Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast.
A member of this forum, WoDiMi, who has an excellent site with pretty much any African weapon you can imagine, shows a few of these and also identifies them as Mandingo: http://www.africanarms.com/gallery?7...dagger-37-5-cm http://www.africanarms.com/gallery?0...agger-36-42-cm http://www.africanarms.com/gallery?4...-39-7-cm-54-cm http://www.africanarms.com/gallery?m...dagger-53-7-cm Really nice dagger, congratulations! |
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Thank you Kuber & TVV - I will correctly label and display with pride then
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and what a fantastic website WoDiMi has - thanks for linking to it.
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What a collection!!!! I hope WoDiMi has thought about its preservation as a whole collection on his demise. To see it broken up would be a tragedy.
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