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The author provides interesting data in the note to chapter 3: 19 Leather- and metal-crafts were important native industries. Although many sword blades (s. ruwan takobi) were made locally by the cire-perdue, or "lost wax," method, imported tempered blades were superior and preferred to the more brittle domestic variety. Barth estimated that Kano imported annually about 50,000 sword blades, mostly from Solingen. These were mounted and sheathed by native craftsmen and sold throughout the Sudan: Travels and Discoveries, I, 519-20. |
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You might find this dagger interesting. Scroll down to figure 8 in the link you provided. Although the scabbard is different you see the same weapon. This is obviously 20th century and pristine. It could be "earlyish" having been well kept all its life outside of Africa , who knows, but who cares as it is as I said in pristine condition.
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However, this type of dagger with the red leather is associated in particular with the Wolof in Senegal, at least according to the identifications and provenance of various pieces in the Quai de Branly Museum. Examples here: https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/explore...-son-fourreau´ https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/explore...t-son-fourreau https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/explore...17333-poignard https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/explore...rd-et-fourreau |
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