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4th June 2023, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 1,666
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Quai Branly is a great resource, but even they make mistakes sometime, like here for example:
https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/explore...4-sabre-courbe |
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5th June 2023, 06:25 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Czech Republic
Posts: 845
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Hi, Just for fun I am attaching a picture of a dagger I bought cca in 2009 in a small town, or rather village Rhumsiki in the Mandara mountains in northern Cameroon. I believe the dagger was newly made at that time. The similar shape of the blade (to Yvain dagger)and the decoration on the scabbard shows how different ethnic groups or individual knife makers interact and intermingle. Rhumsiki is supposed to be inhabited by the Kapsiki ethnic group, but that certainly does not mean that it was made by a blacksmith from the Kapsiki tribe. I'm sure many ethnic groups meet there...
Unfortunately I don't have the dagger with me, so I'm attaching an old group photo where I circled it. |
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