A small collection of African and Near Eastern knives and daggers

A small collection of African and Near Eastern knives and daggers, including a Moroccan jambiya, curved blade 10 in., hilt with fan shaped pommel, brass scabbard with incised decoration; a Sudanese arm dagger, with short triangular blade and waisted wooden hilt, hide scabbard with two arm loops (knife housed in later scabbard owing to shrinkage of original); another Sudanese knife with forward curving blade; a short double edged dagger with carved wood mountings; and three others. [7]