Identify this pair of weapons - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

2nd February 2005, 10:06 PM	#4
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	These are ceremonial weapons from North Africa (Algiers, Morocco etc). Some would call them Nimchas; I would hesitate: nimcha is a very specific type of sword. Usually, this variety of daggers is produced for a tourist market or for ceremonial functions, such as weddings ( this is teeming with Freudian symbolism !!) . Likely between 1960s and yesterdays.

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