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Old 1st August 2009, 03:40 PM   #18
colin henshaw
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Hi

I found this nice illustration in the 1892 book "Sultan to Sultan" by the determined American lady explorer, May French-Sheldon who travelled in the area north of Kilimanjaro in the 1890s.

Is shows well the form of East African knobkerrie or "rungu", to use the correct native term.

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