Cameroon sword?

[blue lander]

I just won the auction for this and, as usual, I have no idea what it is. It seems to bear a distant resemblance to those "scorpion" shaped blades from Cameroon, so maybe that's a hint? A chunk of the hilt is missing and there's a big crack in the blade.

[colin henshaw]

An interesting and unusual form - my guess is Congo, perhaps Teke people or thereabouts ?

[Congoblades]

There are a lot of similarities with this Teke knife,

[blue lander]

Very similar, thanks both for pointing me in the right direction. It should be arriving in the mail in the next day or two. Should I do anything about that giant split in the blade? I'm worried it might grow and eventually split in two.