I would like to correct myself, I got carried away by what I personally call "classic afaraks".
There are, of course, other groups of purely Afar knives, which are also called gile, but they are shorter and often have a T-shaped handle. In these cases, the handle is often made of segments of horn and metal, it can also be only horn, or only aluminum or brass. These knives can be of medium size or even very small.
There is also a group of Afar like knives with bulbous pommel, which I believe belong to afarised Oromos from the north-eastern part of Ethiopia....
Let me apologize a lot for that my important omission. (this could be for longer discussion...)
Herewith I am attaching some (already older) ilustration pictures, also to the previously mentioned texts.
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