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Originally Posted by TVV
When it comes to ethnographic arms, we tend to classify swords and daggers by their hilt. For example, the same blade can be a takouba, a kaskara or even a firangi, depending on the hilt.
Based on this then, this would be a sboula.
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TVV, you raise an interesting point. I would agree with you that many cultures do look at the "dress" of a sword or knife to ascertain which group's name is used to describe it. However, I don't think this applies to
all ethnographic arms.
Keris owners within the Indonesian culture, for example, have a detailed classification system based on the
dhapur of the blade (regardless of dress).