Malay archipelago is as close as I can locate; other more knowledgeable will refine.
Nice carving on the bone hilt. The decoration on the blade is not something I've seen, but reminiscent of the acid-etching of the Mahdi-era Sudan knives with the pseudo-Arabic script. I'm not at all sure that that was the technique used in this example, though.
That's all I've got. Some of it may even be accurate.
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