That appears to be the wrong photo?
I certainly don't have any examples to offer up, and no ability to post photos to websites. It's actually not an incredibly uncommon variety, except, as I say, for the deep wide fuller. True, one doesn't see them much in US, from which alone one can quess they come from a land not muchly visitted by Americans. Again, fits well to Western Pakistan. Trying to think where I saw a bunch of them all together; somewhere on the internet; perhaps for sale; I don't remember. The extremity and style of the curve are as much a part of this style as the tip. This one has a more or less sabre-like shape to its tip. There are others (and I think these are two distinct regional styles, with, from what I've heard and read, these others more southern) with a pronounced short clip similar to those seen on bhuj, for example, while otherwise remaining clearly kukuris.
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