Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th February 2026, 02:31 AM
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Replies: 18
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Thanks
Thank you to all who have commented. The consensus on the origin of the knife is Morocco. Exactly what to call it is still up in the air. The decorative design is still is a mystery.
Now we wait...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th February 2026, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 18
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Here are two new pictures that may be helpful....
Here are two new pictures that may be helpful. The lighting is coming from the side. This gives some shadows and thus we can infer shape. What I see:
The red dots are pits, with both red coloring...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th February 2026, 11:08 PM
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Replies: 18
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On close inspection, The red dots are indeed...
On close inspection, The red dots are indeed crystals set into holes in the bone. The black lines are very delicate. I don't feel any surface texture difference to the lines, but they are in very...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th February 2026, 09:11 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 13,565
Thanks GP.
I was thinking Caucasian,...
Thanks GP.
I was thinking Caucasian, perhaps near the border with Turkey. The bone material somewhat matches a bone hilt in a Georgian kindjal from that area in my collection. The decorative...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th February 2026, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 13,565
An interesting .... what is it?
Hello all,
I don't mean to lean on the community so much for ID. I'm pretty good at doing my own research. This one has me stuck. Any thoughts?
The scabbard and hilt are all bone. Three...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th February 2026, 11:43 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,049
ox-cutter
Thanks, this was a good lead. Unfortunately, all of the links in that thread are dead. I'm seeing that more and more, :(
My sword feels more like it is more suitable for an ox beheading than...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th February 2026, 06:59 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,049
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th February 2026, 11:54 PM
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Replies: 12
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd February 2026, 04:05 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 24,658
Museum pages and Oceania
Ian,
I like the idea of “museum” pages for ALL the weapons discussed in the forums.
It is a tremendously difficult undertaking, but the value would be very high. We have many fine books by...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd February 2026, 03:32 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 24,658
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd February 2026, 03:28 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,049
Thanks Rob. I am sure glad that your blade was...
Thanks Rob. I am sure glad that your blade was rescued before the lake flooded it. The Georgia reference will send me to my reference books. I have become very interested in the Caucasus since it...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd February 2026, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,049
Nepalese Tulwar-hilted Kukri or ???
Hello All,
I won this weapon at auction yesterday. It was advertised as a "Sussun Pata Khanda" but I think it is not. The shape nearly matches the Nepalese Kukri with a Tulwar hilt ...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd January 2026, 09:01 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 9,520
My shotel for comparison
Here is shotel in my collection. It is a well-forged, double-sided sword 31 1/4 inches in length with a 27 inch curved blade. The blade is flat with diamond cross-section. The hilt is wooden with a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th November 2025, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 13,080
Very interesting theory! I’m also gratified to...
Very interesting theory! I’m also gratified to learn that these upside down hilts may not be the work of careless collectors. I have one Moro Kris with a reversed hilt. When I first presented it...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st October 2025, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,133
Ian,
On my hilt pins are steel and the strip...
Ian,
On my hilt pins are steel and the strip at the base of the hilt is silver. I do not have a firm data-driven estimate of the date, only what the seller has told me. The saifani hilt gets...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st October 2025, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,133
For comparison, my jambiya
Hello,
Welcome Sully! Very interesting to see your jambiya, an older example. I very much like to hear the stories told to you by the elders.
For comparison, here is my ‘aseeb (assib) janbiya...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd October 2025, 06:58 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 29,369
Preventing lost knowledge
I greatly appreciate Turkoman’s comment,
This is why I decided very early in my collecting that I would preserve everything I could find out about a specific item in my collection. Jim and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd October 2025, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 37,053
Auction houses and tariffs
Hello,
I have noticed in the past two weeks that a few auction houses have begun to explicitly state that they won’t ship to the US. I just tried to order a rare book from a Bulgaria bookseller,...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th September 2025, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 57,169
Formal ontology for
Thanks very much. I'm interested in helping out with the ontology. There is a huge treasure trove of expertise here in the forum and especially in the archives. The quality of semantic classification...
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Forum: Swap Forum
24th September 2025, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 36,970
Book?
Who is publishing the book?
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd September 2025, 09:52 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 57,169
Terrific! Now who else can help?
Dana,
Thanks for including the machine readable format. You sound like an expert in semantic data systems. Surely you must know of an eager grad student who will take the task further? It’s worth...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd September 2025, 09:43 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 57,169
Ethnographic weapon ontology/vocabulary?
Hi,
Resurrecting this thread with high hopes!
I’m super interested in finding a digitized vocabulary (ontology) similar to Dublin Core (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) for...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th September 2025, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 32,720
Er, yes but there is more
I struggle with this question too. It is actually a much broader dilemma than Ivory. Take a look at the CITES regulations. Yes, there are some holes in it but basically it prohibits ownership,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th September 2025, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 49,752
We collect stories
Friends,
This is always an interesting discussion. There are often some new things to be said from a unique point of view. I have been thinking about the topic lately and perhaps you find this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th September 2025, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 108,634
Still available resource Finish knives
Friends,
I’d like to second Rich S.’s recommendation for this book. As off September 2025, it is still available in paperback. The b/w images are a little hard to see but there is a great deal of...
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