Subject: cavalry
Culture: Oromo/Galla
Setting: Ethiopian empire 19th-early 20thc
Object: shotel saber
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Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Sword (shotel) Abyssinian, about 1920
The characteristic sword of Abyssinia was the sickle-like shotel,
with its edge on the inside of the curve.
This has a blade made by Henry Wilkinson of London for export,
with its edge on the outside of the curve by mistake." ...
