My dad recently got back from a trip to India and brought me this knife. I had asked him to try to find a working kukri, not a decorative one if he had the time. He spent most of his trip doing medical clinics in very remote villages and didn't have a chance to find one. Before he flew out of Delhi to come home he looked around a bit and found this at a hardware store. It was pretty rusty so I cleaned it up a bit and took a big nick out of the edge. I haven't had any luck finding what the purpose of this knife is. I assume it is either and Indian machete or some kind of a scythe? Any of you knife buffs know? The cutting edge is about 10 1/2" long. .
Maybe so... Of the few possessions Ghanaian left behind there was a very similar knife from what I've learned. I'm hoping Expat might chime in on this.
I was just about to post the same thing. No offense to anyone else but he is probably the expert for this.
Definitely an Indian/Nepali billhook. I could recognize it by the style before even reading where it had come from.
