My Flyssa Daggers

[Emanuel]

Originally Posted by Dom

Emanuel ...
you have a large and fertile imagination...sorry to kill the poet who is residing in you

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Dom

Haha pas de probléme Dom, and certainly no poetry behind my post. I did think about older trade but I had no information about that. The only thing I knew for sure connecting Senegal with Algeria were the 1940s-1960s missions.
If there was extensive trade between Kabylia and the Sahel in the 19th century, that would have passed through Touareg caravans until the 1930s as you say. Some examples of flyssa blades chould have been found in Touareg or Hausa fashion no?

Anyway, we do see a good number of thse Senegalese cowry shell flyssas so they really must have like them :shurg:

Incidentally, have you seen this website: http://www.algerie-ancienne.com/livres/Revue/revue.htm ?

It has hundreds of scanned books and publications covering most of the history of the area. I haven't had time to read even 1% of it...

Best,
Emanuel