The resemblance there, but not the "hook", although my sword does resemble the nglala execution sword (consistent with Burton's comments, below).
"Book of the Sword", p.139 fig. 141
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The falchion of Ashanti, Dahome, and Benin, the murderous despotisms of western intertropical Africa, terminates in a whorl. This is also the shape of the Chinese Sabre-knife, with which criminals were dispatched...
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