"Malinke Saber Curved Blade Malinke Mandingo Saber, Also Called "sofa" "
Malinké Sabre Curved blade sabre Malinké or Mandingue, also called "Sofa",
With leather scabbard in the style of Arab-Berber work
First half of the 20th century
Length 81cm (small accidents and missing. Leather trimming tassel detached)
- 140 € -
The Malinké, or Mandingues, are a people of West Africa, present mainly in Mali. The "Sofa" are the horsemen who distinguished themselves in the war waged at the end of the 19th century against the French colonization of West Africa and the Sahel-Saharan strip.
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