Unknown cutlass

[Dmitry]

Originally Posted by Norman McCormick

The re-profiled blade looks, from the photographs, to have been ground to make a useful tool for partial butchery a normal practice done in the field after a kill.

That sounds right to me. It would do well for field dressing the kill.
..A hunter broke the blade on his hanger and passed it on to one of his servants.

Originally it looked like something like this.