Hello Thomas and welcome to the Forum!
This unusual style of sword is said to come from the Garo people. Ian Heath's volume on the NE Frontier* shows a picture of the Garo's weapons and also a number of line drawings of Garo warriors carrying these swords. I have copied those figures here.
The Garo are an ethnic group distinct from the Naga and have a fairly wide distribution in NE India as well as Bangladesh.
Ian.
* Ian Heath. Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia. Volume 3: India's North-Eastern Frontier. Foundry, 1999.
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