My two colleagues are so right.
Now, I don't know how these French blades arrived in the Sahel region.
Most of the old blades are from the end of 18th and beginning of 19th.
Are they trade blades, let's say old blades, sold to indigenous populations?
Or these blades have been captured during fights with the French army, later in the 19th century: even during the conquest of Algeria...
Mystery...
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