Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 12:17 PM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 3,414
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th October 2025, 10:37 AM
|
|
Replies: 7
Views: 3,109
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th October 2025, 10:02 AM
|
|
Replies: 45
Views: 9,662
hi Paatterson25. as you have the sword in hand...
hi Paatterson25. as you have the sword in hand now? some more much more details photos would be in order. im inclined to agree the guard DOES indeed look like a tulwar disk !
lets have some more...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th October 2025, 03:19 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 5,248
yep you can still get the same model today, ...
yep you can still get the same model today,
they are thinner than the original kukris, being cut from steel plate. 5-6mm normally . in fact you can get the same models with the metal bands on the...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th October 2025, 08:05 AM
|
|
Replies: 0
Views: 3,437
Central Asian shashka.
Here is a typical example of a central Asian "shashka".
The blade has a slight T section and almost no taper till the foible where it tapers abruptly.
The blade gets thinner and less robust...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th October 2025, 05:35 AM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 5,248
Hi it's indian, not Nepali.
Made in Dehradun.....
Hi it's indian, not Nepali.
Made in Dehradun.. recently made. Last 20-40 years . They still make that "model" . There's another one the make with a horn handle and aluminium buttplate .. these have...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th October 2025, 02:16 PM
|
|
Replies: 45
Views: 9,662
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th October 2025, 06:40 AM
|
|
Replies: 45
Views: 9,662
These clipped type of blades are common among...
These clipped type of blades are common among several ethnic groups in what is now the the modern provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi.
The tai/dai larger ethno group makes such swords.. many of the...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th October 2025, 06:33 AM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 3,712
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th October 2025, 08:29 AM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 4,945
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th October 2025, 08:40 AM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 3,712
Small Sarawak parang
Here I have a very small parang from Sarawak.
It has to be the smallest functional one I've seen.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th September 2025, 11:30 PM
|
|
Replies: 10
Views: 7,671
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th September 2025, 03:23 AM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 9,419
Oh they are definitely 100% weapons. I've seen...
Oh they are definitely 100% weapons. I've seen multiple.. half dozen or more occasions of them being used as weapons ��.
They are not primarily for hunting, they are primarily for killing humans....
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th September 2025, 02:56 AM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 9,419
Yeah they are weapons.
Like an every day dort...
Yeah they are weapons.
Like an every day dort of carry pistol. In the east and south east the club. Waddy, mapangi, nullanulla, as you'd call it among other names was the preferred weapon to carry...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th September 2025, 02:36 AM
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 13,065
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th September 2025, 11:37 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 9,419
These type of clubs from Queensland were also...
These type of clubs from Queensland were also thrown and a solid impact could split them as they are not typically make of a burl but if a straight bit of timber. I've seen clips that were cut down...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st August 2025, 05:34 AM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 19,480
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th August 2025, 12:56 PM
|
|
Replies: 9
Views: 11,436
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th August 2025, 10:36 PM
|
|
Replies: 9
Views: 11,436
Keris like objects..
In fact these daggers...
Keris like objects..
In fact these daggers have been discussed here before. I'd totally forgotten them!
The less keris like daggers
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18392
And the...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th August 2025, 10:27 PM
|
|
Replies: 9
Views: 11,436
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th August 2025, 02:13 PM
|
|
Replies: 9
Views: 11,436
Strange Philippines keris
I got this keris recently as it is quite peculiar
It is not so old. No antique I'd guess made in the last 60 years,
I'm confident it's from the Philippines.
But i could be wrong.
I think...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th July 2025, 10:29 PM
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 12,010
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2025, 05:12 AM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 9,762
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th July 2025, 06:28 AM
|
|
Replies: 26
Views: 13,220
I think we are onto something that this is...
I think we are onto something that this is something from the Carribbean. The numbers are very much in the 18th and 19th century style.. look at the downward sloping 7s.
I don't think it's African...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th July 2025, 04:12 AM
|
|
Replies: 26
Views: 13,220
|
