Ethnographic bayonets question

[stephen wood]

...a very interesting subject. There was certainly a fascination with the yataghan in France at the time that the first yataghan bayonets appeared - the art of the time is full of them.

I think that the best online resource is here .

I have always wondered what happened to the thousands of sword bayonets which were captured with Remington rolling-block rifles by Mahdist forces.