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francantolin · 10th January 2022, 05:32 PM

Hello,

Thank you for your comments and especially Tim for the link of the anthropology site !

I got it in south of France,
so just to cross the mediterranean sea for arrive in Africa

it can be from north Africa
Sahel Area but I had time ago one of these knives with goat skin and it wasn't seewed this way, the leather was thicker and smell '' a little'' as
often,
not this one, don't seems made with the same skin, though but thin

Intersting too: the scabbard is made of an unique piece of leather, didn't saw that before.

The wooden hilt seems for me made with european wood like old european ''peasant'' knives ,axe handles more than wood usually used in Africa but maybe I'm wrong or it can have been modified in Africa from an european knife...

I found on the net, the Parfleche indian leather/containers made of
rawhide leather who can look like,
sure the red color is not the funniest one as we often find in Native American decorations/ornaments...

But maybe it can match, more than african for me, sure.

Another possibility:
it just can have been made by an european 70's hippie artist or something ...

I'll contact the museum and see what they can tell me.
Again Thank you Tim !

10th January 2022, 05:32 PM	#5
francantolin Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 821	Hello, Thank you for your comments and especially Tim for the link of the anthropology site ! I got it in south of France, so just to cross the mediterranean sea for arrive in Africa it can be from north Africa Sahel Area but I had time ago one of these knives with goat skin and it wasn't seewed this way, the leather was thicker and smell '' a little'' as often, not this one, don't seems made with the same skin, though but thin Intersting too: the scabbard is made of an unique piece of leather, didn't saw that before. The wooden hilt seems for me made with european wood like old european ''peasant'' knives ,axe handles more than wood usually used in Africa but maybe I'm wrong or it can have been modified in Africa from an european knife... I found on the net, the Parfleche indian leather/containers made of rawhide leather who can look like, sure the red color is not the funniest one as we often find in Native American decorations/ornaments... But maybe it can match, more than african for me, sure. Another possibility: it just can have been made by an european 70's hippie artist or something ... I'll contact the museum and see what they can tell me. Again Thank you Tim !