Three daggers

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Description

a) curved pointed blade, wooden hilt, parts of the hilt and leather sheath covered with elaborately chiselled silver sheet, two eyelets, l: 40 cm; b) small dagger with pointed blade, handle with mother-of-pearl-inlay, leather sheath stud mit metal sheet, l: 26,5 cm; c) short dagger, handle made from bone, wooden sheeth covered with chiselled silver sheet, handle and sheath adorned with semiprecious stones, l: 21,5 cm; each with slight traces of corrosion

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Comparing literature

Tirri, Anthony C., Islamic and Native Weapons of Colonial Africa 1800 - 1960, Indiana 2007, p. 598, 601, 606

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