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Originally Posted by Iain
African for sure in my opinion. This pattern of leather wrapping over cloth is well known in the Cameroon/Nigeria border area. The incised line decoration is also consistent with pieces from this area and also shows up on Hausa arm daggers.
The pommel is certainly unusual, but I guess comes from the same school as the Tebu skullcrusher style.
Nice piece!
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Thanks Iain.
I've never seen one quite like this before, so it had me a bit stumped.