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Old 15th April 2006, 01:15 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Mark Bowditch
By 'fake,' do you mean made by someone other than the respective tribe of origin, or more-or-less mass produced tourist items like the piles of stuff you can buy when you visit places like "The Bomas of Kenya," or from street hawkers in Nairobi (which might have actually been made by a Kikuyu, or whatever, just not for real use)?
I mean fake as in making it look old by rusting the blades and trying to give the wood a distressed look or old looking patina. The prosecution rests!

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