please, can anyone identify this crude (African?) sword

Tim Simmons · 31st January 2006, 07:52 PM

Which book is this? I have "people of Kau" she has done remarkable work in the southern Sudan. Shame about her past but a girl has to make a living. Where are your sickle knives? Tim

ariel · 31st January 2006, 10:52 PM

About 3 years ago I was at a small meeting in Feldafing: a very picturesque village in Bavaria, across the lake from Switzerland.
That's where Leni lived, and she even had her 100 yo birth party in our hotel.
Having had one beer too many (in honesty, much more....) we all wanted to visit her in her home and ask for authographs. In the last moment, last functioning neurons prevailed and we stayed in the hotel, drinking more.
About 3-4 miles from there there is a museum built by Lothar Buchheim (the author of "Das Boot"), abstract art and tons of African swords.

katana · 1st February 2006, 10:55 AM

Thanks Freddy,
it seems that African knife design is very 'fluid', adaptions and modifications seem very common. I think that is why my interest in African knives is growing.

31st January 2006, 07:52 PM	#1
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,875	Which book is this? I have "people of Kau" she has done remarkable work in the southern Sudan. Shame about her past but a girl has to make a living. Where are your sickle knives? Tim

31st January 2006, 10:52 PM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	About 3 years ago I was at a small meeting in Feldafing: a very picturesque village in Bavaria, across the lake from Switzerland. That's where Leni lived, and she even had her 100 yo birth party in our hotel. Having had one beer too many (in honesty, much more....) we all wanted to visit her in her home and ask for authographs. In the last moment, last functioning neurons prevailed and we stayed in the hotel, drinking more. About 3-4 miles from there there is a museum built by Lothar Buchheim (the author of "Das Boot"), abstract art and tons of African swords.

1st February 2006, 10:55 AM	#3
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	Thanks Freddy, it seems that African knife design is very 'fluid', adaptions and modifications seem very common. I think that is why my interest in African knives is growing.