Four knives

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Description

metal, wood, leather, arm dagger of the Tubu, a cross border tribe of Mali, Chad and Niger, endling in typical pommel, elaborated sheath made from leather and reptile skin, l: 29 cm; Sudanese arm dagger, wooden handle with delicate wire nettings, elaborated leather sheath, l: 28,5 cm; two long daggers with raised middle ridge, wooden handle and sheath covered with leather, ornamented with rings, l: 51 cm resp. 46 cm

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Comparing literature

Tirri, Anthony C., Islamic and Native Weapons of Colonial Africa 1800 - 1960, Indiana 2007, p. 545, ill. 8-39, p. 38, ill. 1-21

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