Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd June 2011, 03:26 AM
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Replies: 20
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Hello all,
To Kukulza,
You pointed at the...
Hello all,
To Kukulza,
You pointed at the fact that the Saisiat have similar knives, except they are straight. In fact, despite similarities, the Saisiat are a very different ethnic group,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2011, 11:49 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2011, 11:42 PM
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Replies: 20
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I also found this other Atayal/Seediq/Truku...
I also found this other Atayal/Seediq/Truku knife, more basic and in a little lesser shape (crack along the sheath). Because of the red color of the sheath (for protection against the evil spirits),...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2011, 11:38 PM
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Replies: 20
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Two Atayal knives from Taiwan/Formosa
Well, as a passionate collector of Taiwan aborigines art, I was lucky enough in the last months to be able to find few more Taiwan knives.
Nothing had came up for months, and then all of a sudden,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2011, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 3
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Hello Barry,
I'm trying to find more infos and...
Hello Barry,
I'm trying to find more infos and pictures on this subject, but they are quite rare -- except for what concerns the famous bronze drums from the same culture.
If you don't mind, could...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th June 2011, 02:56 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th June 2011, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 27
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One more word just to show how much the Taiwan...
One more word just to show how much the Taiwan aborigenes culture is not well known: even the specialists from the Imperial Auctions, from which I bought this sword 2 months ago, mislabeled it and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th June 2011, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 30,210
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th June 2011, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 30,210
Rick,
Yes, it seems to be. It is much more...
Rick,
Yes, it seems to be. It is much more sophisticated than the usual Paiwanic blades. This one must be the result of a barter with a Chinese Han settler or a Japanese traveller. May be, it was...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th June 2011, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 30,210
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th June 2011, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 30,210
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th June 2011, 12:32 PM
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Replies: 27
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Taiwan aborigines: a ceremonial Rukai knife
I promised earlier to post more pictures of the knife I bought through the Imperial Auctions sales on March the 19th. Here they are. I couldn’t do it earlier because it took some times for the knife...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th June 2011, 05:28 AM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th May 2011, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,271
iain,
I think that all the officers in the...
iain,
I think that all the officers in the French army at that time would have the cultural level to write this text on a sword. But not as many would have had the poetic mind to do it ! :-)
In...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th May 2011, 05:08 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,271
The text on the blade is very easy to read, at...
The text on the blade is very easy to read, at least for a native French speaker, and is in good French. The text seems to have been copied on the blade by someone that knew perfectly its meaning in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th May 2011, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,271
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th May 2011, 04:45 PM
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Views: 17,271
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2011, 04:32 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 29,387
Felicitations, Dom!
The same with me. I...
Felicitations, Dom!
The same with me. I received my invoice yesterday, and the knife should be shipped by the end of this week.
As soon as I have it in hands, I will take pictures to display on the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2011, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 4
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Kukulza, it's not a question of incriminating...
Kukulza, it's not a question of incriminating once more the Japanese or the Kuomintang for all the problems -- or saying that the Japanese were looking for the 'good savages', as you imply. The...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2011, 02:31 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 15,664
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2011, 02:25 AM
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Views: 15,664
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2011, 02:23 AM
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Views: 15,664
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2011, 02:19 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2011, 02:16 AM
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The Taiwanese aboriginal shields
A fellow member of this forum recently attracted my attention on an unknown South East Asian shield on sale :-) But it was not from Taiwan. Because he was curious to know more about the shields from...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th March 2011, 03:15 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 11,254
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