Interesting Ashanti ceremonial sword?

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IT LOOKS LIKE AN ASHANTE BLADE THESE ARE FOR CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS AND HAVE PEIERCED DESIGNS IN THE BLADES AND WOOD HANDLES COVERED IN GOLD LEAF. THEY HAVE SMALL GOLD FETISHES ATTACHED AT IMPORTANT OCASIONS AS WELL. THE ONES I HAVE HANDLED DID NOT HAVE AN EDGE PERHAPS THE EARLIER ONES DID BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN A SHARP ONE. THE BLADE YOU HAVE HAS SEVERAL ODD PROPERTIES IT LOOKS CAST RATHER THAN FORGED AND THEN CUT OUT AND THE MOVING PART IS ODD AS WELL. A VERY INTERESTING ITEM. HERE ARE A FEW PICTURES. ONE PICTURE IS OF THE KING AND YOU CAN SEE THE GOLD COVERED HANDLES OF MANY STATE SWORDS.

TWO OTHER INTERESTING THINGS IS THAT THE GHANA STATE JEWLS WERE STOLEN IN OCT. 2012.
LOOK UP THE KOMFO ANOKYE SWORD. IT IS IN A SHRINE AND THE LEGEND IS, AS LONG AS IT STAYS THERE THE ASHANTE KINGOMDOM SHALL ENDURE.