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19th January 2013, 02:04 PM
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Unusual arm dagger, from where?
Just have bought one more arm dagger, nothing spectacular but think that it will look after some cleaning nice. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dagg...vip=true&rt=nc
All comments are welcome, special from which tribe this dagger coming and an estimated age. |
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19th January 2013, 03:08 PM
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Tebu tribe.
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19th January 2013, 04:30 PM
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30th January 2013, 08:33 PM
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Have received the dagger, it has a steel pommel so Lew is correct. it is rather small and the arm loop just will fit at a child arm so I think it's made for a young boy. Here some fast taken pictures after cleaning.
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30th January 2013, 10:34 PM
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Nice piece, while it conforms to the Tebu style I would just note that in the 20th century this has become a very general Sahel style and can be observed outside the Tebu people group.
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30th January 2013, 11:19 PM
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Ian, thank you very much for this very interesting information. Regards, Detlef |
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