3 African Swords for ID & Comment

[Iain]

First blade does indeed look European. Afraid I can't make out much on the blade marks, but I gather most of these are recycled European sabers or other military swords.

Second is Guduf I personally would not consider it a Fulani sword. There are a lot of small ethnic groups in the region and the missionaries could quite easily have been sold the piece by a Fulani? The reference as I recall for Guduf is from Wente-Lukas and the type is pretty distinctive. I am attaching an image of my own example which seems to have some age. I gather these are or were, still made fairly recently I imagine for dance and other ritual functions. The question of course of what the Fulani used before the takouba is a great one, another forumite had some potential answers in this thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14500

Last, I think Eric is absolutely correct.