Interesting knife for ID Tlingit or African?

[Atlantia]

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!

Thanks Iain.

I've never seen one quite like this before, so it had me a bit stumped.