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Old 25th February 2006, 10:13 AM   #2
Luc LEFEBVRE
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Arrow Mandara
It looks like one of mine witch come from the Mandara mountains, North-Cameroon, region of the Kirdi.
The handle is made of horn.

In the 2 exemples on my website, the blade is enlarge at his middle part.
http://lulef.free.fr/html/kirdi_2.html

More about Mandara:
http://www.mandaras.info/EthnicGroups.html

Luc

Another exemple with the same blade:
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