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Old 24th November 2006, 04:19 AM   #1
Ian
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Default W. African knives

Hi user24:

Welcome to the EAAF.

This is indeed a recently made knife from West Africa. A few years ago I had an international student who brought several of these knives of varying lengths from Ghana as a present. The tooled leatherwork is actually quite attractive but the knives have poor non-functional blades.

While I know they are being sold now in Ghana, I can't really give you a more precise geographic region in which they are made. Others here can probably give you more accurate information.

Attached are pictures of several that I received from my student.

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Old 24th November 2006, 11:42 AM   #2
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yay! thanks a lot for this - that's solved a problem that's been bugging me for about 4 years! I honestly thought we'd never get further than "well, it looks eastern/african/turkish/etc".
thanks muchly!
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