A Fine and Fascinating SE African YAO Dagger

[Martin Lubojacky]

This is very nice knife (East African, probably Yao ... and good discussion. Thank you.

(I think that such short tongue could derogate general working life and "load characteristic" of the knife as such. I was always wondering why in some cases they made it so short. In the case of longer and heavier blades - e.g. so called Berber (or Dominican swords it was not too much practical....)