Shula S'boula/Jiboula

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by RobT

I know that it sounds like the beginning of a verse from Shirley Ellis' name game song but I was wondering how forum members would classify this knife. The hilt is clearly an s’boula/jiboula form but the blade and sheath are just as clearly shula. I’ll come right out with my opinion that it should be considered an s’boula/jiboula because the hilt was placed on the blade by a person of the s’boula/jiboula culture. But were the situation the other way around (shula hilt on an s’boula/jiboula blade), I’m not so sure I would want to call it a shula. What do you guys think?

Hello Rob,

Very nice and interesting dagger! For me it's just the name game. I wouldn't be surprised that "s'boula" and "shula" are only different spellings for curved dagger and the "classification" for two, for our view, different curved daggers, is a western collectors "classification.

Best regards,
Detlef