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Now it's clear to me that the instrument shown has but one sole purpose, and that's killing human beings!!! :eek: :eek: :D
Well, I guess if you were Canajun, you could use it to cut your firewood, or maybe if you were out in the boonies, you could use it to extract a tooth that was infected if you couldn't get to the dentist, and if you were short of fresh meat, you could use it to break open the bones of wild game to get at the marrow or brains. It's a little too long to be real handy as a skinning knife. :D :D
Or you could hang it in a sheath across your back and make like Paul Hogan (aka Crocodile Dundee) at appropriate times "That's not a knife...... this is a knife!"
It looks to me like a variation of the Bowie knife (or the Arkansas Toothpick as it's sometimes wrongfully called). The serrations could be used to scale fish, if you don't mind things getting stinky. By any name, it's a thoroughly nasty looking piece of work.