Show us your Maguindanao panabas

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Originally Posted by drac2k

Here are four of my favorite panabas,(panabi ?).

Very nice samples! I've noticed that panabas with short handles and long blades tend to be older. I've seen a couple of references pointing to 1800s as the era by which these short-hilted beasts proliferated- while for early 1900s onwards, the panabas evolved to be more proportionate in terms of hilt : blade measurements.