Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - On the Use of Indian Terms for Identification of Weapon Types

ariel · 20th October 2015, 04:02 PM

First of all, not every weapon known to us by its ( presumed) name was mentioned in that book.
Second, this book listed weapons, not their modes of decoration.
No sense listing a dagger with a flower-like handle, since there must have been examples of the same dagger without it, or with handles of a variety of different styles.

20th October 2015, 04:02 PM	#70
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	First of all, not every weapon known to us by its ( presumed) name was mentioned in that book. Second, this book listed weapons, not their modes of decoration. No sense listing a dagger with a flower-like handle, since there must have been examples of the same dagger without it, or with handles of a variety of different styles.