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Old 1st September 2017, 01:07 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Johan van Zyl
Thank you, Pieje and Iain. Could you perhaps be so kind as to post a pic of one of your blades to show the resemblance?

Pieje, why do you believe this blade to be North African? Do you see features that help to identify it as such and no other? North Africa is a vast area.

Johan (gratefully)
Hi Johan,

I'd have a go through the Pitts River Museum online collections. I don't really collect these myself, however I'm confident its from Northern Nigeria, Mali or Niger, generally speaking from a Hausa area.

See the link below for a similar example from Kano.
http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID78116.html
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