Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th February 2025, 03:09 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th January 2025, 07:21 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st December 2024, 12:27 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th December 2024, 06:49 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th December 2024, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 12
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Presumed Philippine?
Received from new member, Gacho77, who desires to learn what it is and whether it belongs in a museum or the trash can. More the former, I believe. I suspect it is from the Philippines.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th December 2024, 06:28 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th November 2024, 03:06 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th October 2024, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 32
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Fernando, may he Rest in Peace
It is with sadness that I announce that Fernando passed away on October 15 in hospital following a debilitating illness of several months duration. He led a full and interesting life and the world is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th October 2024, 08:24 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th September 2024, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 17
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In the relevant times, European "trade" blades...
In the relevant times, European "trade" blades were widely exported and may be seen in a wide variety of regional mountings: Tuareg takoubas, Sudanese kaskaras, Mexican espada anchas and, yes,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th August 2024, 02:15 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st July 2024, 04:42 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd July 2024, 01:40 PM
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Spearheads can be so tough to identify as the...
Spearheads can be so tough to identify as the same form - that works - has been repeated in so many times and places. The patina is very convincing for authenticity, a European excavated example from...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th July 2024, 11:56 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
13th July 2024, 02:22 AM
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Views: 84,353
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Forum: European Armoury
12th July 2024, 04:35 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th July 2024, 01:04 PM
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I, too, like this little knife. The form surely...
I, too, like this little knife. The form surely does remind one of a tanto in shirasaya, though the construction details are different. Of course, these are clearly simple working mountings rather...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
12th July 2024, 12:39 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
12th July 2024, 02:00 AM
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Replies: 18
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Very interesting! It appears that the eye is...
Very interesting! It appears that the eye is somewhat collapsed and has lost considerable material on one side. Direct-on views of the more intact side might help. It is absolutely amazing how much...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th July 2024, 05:05 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2024, 05:22 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th May 2024, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 27
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Names of variations on Taureg swords and spears
Just over two decades ago there was a brief window when tourism into Tuareg territory was not strongly discouraged and attempts to develop tourism were at their peak. This ended one night when...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th May 2024, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 21
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Heirlooms, not late 19th century militaria
I think David is correct in reading the tag Daho.
I found two more in my brace of Southeast Asian spears that have a reinforcing tie of the head to the pole, one is again wire but the other is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th May 2024, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 21
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Always nice seeing another of these budiak...
Always nice seeing another of these budiak spears! Here is an old thread (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12397) with a few more examples where the head is wired to the shaft, though...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th May 2024, 04:04 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 27,099
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