Tuareg club

[Marc M.]

Touareg knots: taburi, tabouri, aburi. Usually a wooden club was the only weapon the slaves, iklan,were allowed to carry. Cf Nicolaisen 1963. From the catalogue of the touareg exhibition Brussels 1994, unfortunately no photo.
Regards
Marc

[Changdao]

Originally Posted by Marc M.

Touareg knots: taburi, tabouri, aburi. Usually a wooden club was the only weapon the slaves, iklan,were allowed to carry. Cf Nicolaisen 1963. From the catalogue of the touareg exhibition Brussels 1994, unfortunately no photo.
Regards
Marc

Well, that goes a long way in solving the problem of this piece, I would say.

[Tim Simmons]

Certainly looks more like Tuareg leather work than say Mende.

[Marc M.]

What I want to say with my text is that clubs were used in touareg society by a certain caste in the past. It is unfortunate that there are no images in the catalog of this little known weapon. But as Tim already said based on the leatherwork probably touareg.
Regards
Marc

[Tim Simmons]

Very helpful Marc. Tuarag slave caste.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikelan

[Tim Simmons]

Amazing the things you can learn from this small group of people. The Tuareg 1914-1916 revolt caused some ripples on the British North Nigerian/Niger border regions.

[Tim Simmons]

Arrived and I like it very much, in fact I challenge any member to come up with another. It is quite old with worm holes and worn dryish leather . I have some very good leather cream which I have now applied, it does not darken the leather. As suspected the distal end is weighted with iron rings also some iron ring at the butt end. Perhaps I am sane after all

Looks like the slave caste had to do the nasty face to face fighting.