African Dagger?

[Pieje]

Originally Posted by Johan van Zyl

Thank you, Pieje and Iain. Could you perhaps be so kind as to post a pic of one of your blades to show the resemblance?

Pieje, why do you believe this blade to be North African? Do you see features that help to identify it as such and no other? North Africa is a vast area.

Johan (gratefully)

Same for me, I only collect central African knives. But I'm also confident yours is from above that region, thus North Africa. The use of leatherwork is a typical feature.

I had a look in the database of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris:
http://collections.quaibranly.fr/pod...2-38a41b633408

More similar knives are in the database when searching for "Mali", "Niger", "Hausa" etc.