Hi Fearn, it's a pleasure seeing you coming in
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Originally Posted by fearn
... the "hood" on the pommel are actually eyelashes on a hornbill...
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It's precisely with the (Abyssinian) ground hornbill species that the bird possibility becomes stronger, i guess.
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Originally Posted by chevalier
... the hilt still could be a representation of a ground hornbill, which has huge red wattles around its eyes.
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Eventually i was misguided by a web site which mentioned that this bird exists in the area east to Uganda.
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/ground_hornbills.html
Fernando