| Tuareg Takouba sword with leather sheath. Straight iron blade with four parallel incisions and leather-wrapped grip with brass knob, decorated leather sheath with embossed pattern and three tassels of leather cords.
Minimal damage.
Lit.: Fischer, Werner, Zirngibl, Manfred A., Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p.24, ill. 23
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