My baby tabouka

[Kubur]

a little beauty...

[kronckew]

cool, can we see the whole sword pls.? or is that the whole sword with a piece of scabbard? very roman gladius-like.

[Robert]

very roman gladius-like

My first thought was that someone had cut down a full length sword to make this, possibly for theater, LARP or rein fair use :confused:

[Tim Simmons]

It certainly looks cut down or reformed. It is in the same form of short swords from Nigeria/Cameroon areas. The tabuka is widespread and many Cameroon forms can be found.

[Iain]

I remember when this sold. Interesting to see it appear here. :)

This looks cut down to me. Unfortunate as the blade seems to be an older one.

There's sadly little way to determine where and when the modification was done but as Tim points out, there is a superficial resemblance to some Cameroon and Nigerian short sword forms.