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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Looks like the blade is based on the mandau, and the hilt is definitely newer. In fact, the carving motifs on the hilt appear Borneo Dayak as well. Though it is true that the Dayak also had... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The writing looks like Cyrillic, used by Russians, Ukrainians, and others in Eastern Europe. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() This is no Native American gun stock club I've ever seen. No tribe I know uses a hook hilt like this. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 21
Views: 384
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![]() I did that once where I made the restoration obviously different from the original. The collector/customer never came back to me again. :( It appears that the weaponry collecting community wants... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 8
Views: 377
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![]() Here are my 3 kampilans: 1. Ivory, silver, and copper/silver alloy with hair. Belonged to Maranao sultan circa 1800 with replacement coin "eyes" and later hilt mounts, and a Maranao cloth... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Battara
![]() If you need you can reach us both through private messaging here. Jose (aka Battara) |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Well I would say there are some issues with the information in this video. I am intrigued with the armour and would have loved to hear more and it would have been great to see where they were... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Battara
![]() I agree with Kubur. It looks like a Khyber knife with an armour piercing tip. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() On your new nimcha, is that patina or enamel in the hilt recesses? |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 663
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Battara
![]() Yes please post pics of the whole thing before anyone else posts replies. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 571
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Battara
![]() The patina suggests to me that the asana-asang is bronze/brass and the ferrule perhaps low silver. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 3
Views: 471
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Battara
![]() Both are junggayan. One seems to be made of old narra wood with a horn top. The other is also narra wood but the junggayan tail appears to be broken off. Both are nice, and you are right -... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,026
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Battara
![]() ..........and I just got a lump of coal......... :rolleyes: |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,026
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Battara
![]() I usually don't get into this form of shamshir, but Ariel this is a great example! I love the complete mounts and the extra stones in it. The ring on the hilt is a nice touch. The other mounts... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,577
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Battara
![]() Here is a clearer version of the same weapons dance from my Cherokee heritage (at the beginning of this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNc5O7mug5E Here is a kampilan dance from one side of my... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,396
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,396
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Battara
![]() How wonderful GP! I'm so glad it is not a dead art. I have always admired their work, which I find more challenging than modern Russian, etc. filigree, though their filigree is very good. Thank... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 13
Views: 700
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Battara
![]() Though it looks like twist core it does also remind me of jelly roll damascus as well. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 1,231
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![]() I agree, lighter probably means aluminum, which might indicate a later (early 1900s) dating for the hilt. And yes most I see with silver are wrapped and decorated, not cast. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 1,231
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