Subject: غازى ġāzī desert raider

Culture: Moroccan

Setting: French/Spanish/civil wars, Morocco 1844-1912

Object: koummya dagger

Dar Si Said *

"Spécimens de poignards Cuivre jaune et rouge, argent Début du XX S Marrakech"

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USS Constitution *

"Dagger and Sheath ... This North African weapon is the type used by Barbary corsairs in the early 19th century."

* Museo Nacional de Antropología > Africa

"Gumia. Arabe. Marruecos."

* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery

"Dagger (koummya) African, Morocco, about 1835 This presentation dagger has a long, slender blade in the Tunisian style,

decorated with lavish gold overlay. The scabbard is of wood, covered with velvet, and with a silver chape and top locket."

Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Hall of African Wildlife *

"HIGH DRAMA IN THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT ..."

* Museo Sefardi

* Musée de Marrakech

"1er moitié XX siècle

Argent, bois, cuivre, soie, moulage ciselure"

Musée de Marrakech *

"2ème moitiè XX siècle

Argent, bois, ivoire"

* Musée de Marrakech

"Poignard en argent

Koummiya

Collection particulière

L.65 cm"

Musée de Marrakech *

"Poignard tout en ivoire

Brodé d'argent

Koummiya L. 70 cm

Moitiè 19ème siècle"

* Musée de Marrakech

"Poignard en argent

Et ivoire tout ciselè à la main

Koummiya

L. 68 cm"

Musée de Marrakech *

"2ème moitiè XX siècle

Argent, bois, ivoire"

* Musée de Marrakech

"1er moitiè XX siècle

fer, bois, cuivre, soie, moulage"

Musée de Marrakech *

"2ème moitiè XX siècle

cuivre, bois, argent, soie, moulage

ciselure, soudure, assemblage"

* Musée de Marrakech

"fin de XX siècle

Fer, bois, cuivre, Moulage, ciselure

soudure, assemblage"

Arab Texas Festival 3 *

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