Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[Kubur]

Greeks and yataghans...It's always better to talk...

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Greeks and yataghans...It's always better to talk...

Fellow on the left has a Gasser revolver in his pocket; I wonder why he didn't just shoot the other fellow.

[fernando]

Ngungunhane, Mdungazwe Ngungunyane, Nxumalo, N'gungunhana, known as GUNGUNHANA, the last king of the empire of Gaza (Mozambique) and last of the Jamine monarchy, born 1850 died 1906 in Angra do Heroismo (Azores), to where he was sent to exile in 1898, in the company of his six wifes
... and a picture of some of his Landis, taken in 1890.


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[VANDOO]

STAGED PICTURES OF SHAM BATTLE, HEAD TAKING ECT. ILOILO PHILIPPINES, IGORROTES

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by Rick

Fellow on the left has a Gasser revolver in his pocket; I wonder why he didn't just shoot the other fellow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o

if you look at him at the start of the scene he looks all tuckered out, hot and sweaty - that's not from running, he had a bad case of the trots and he ad libbed the scene, which was supposed to carry on a lot longer with him interacting with the swordsman, but he wasn't in any condition to do all that, so he improvised. it turned out so well they kept it in, and a legend was born.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Rick

Fellow on the left has a Gasser revolver in his pocket; I wonder why he didn't just shoot the other fellow.

That is exactly what happened here.

The Illustrated London News, Volume 76, Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited, 1880

[kahnjar1]

Not sure if this one has been posted before. It appears in Elgood's Arms and Armour of Arabia, and is worthy of showing here.
Stu

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Greeks and yataghans...It's always better to talk...

More likely Albanians or Montenegrins, because of the style of the skull cup, the Gasser revolver and the toka breastplate.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Greeks and yataghans...It's always better to talk...

The title on the full sized image is "Settling a Frontier Dispute". Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 9 October 1880, Artist R C Woodville. I also have seen this described as "Albanian and a Montenegrin in combat".

Here is the full sized image.

[kahnjar1]

Originally Posted by estcrh

The title on the full sized image is "Settling a Frontier Dispute". Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 9 October 1880, Artist R C Woodville. I also have seen this described as "Albanian and a Montenegrin in combat".

Here is the full sized image.

Very nice pic, but raising a question......The 2 guys coming up the hill appear to be wearing Arab head dress, so if the "frontier" is being defended, which frontier is it??
Stu

[estcrh]

Mr. Nichan, an Armenian, born at Savaz, Armenia, about 500 miles from Constantinople. He was one of the life guards of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz (he died 1876). The Ottoman kilij sword he wears, sheathed in a beautiful scabbard set with jewels and richly ornamented, was presented to him by the Sultan for meritorious services. From the book "Portrait types of the Midway Plaisance", 1894, a collection of photographs taken at the 6 months of the Worlds Columbian exposition.

[Battara]

This kilij looks to be one of those examples covered in corals and turquoise.

Great to have background info.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Battara

This kilij looks to be one of those examples covered in corals and turquoise.

Great to have background info.

Actually it came from an old forum post on that subject. I just edited the image a bit.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5860

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by kahnjar1

Very nice pic, but raising a question......The 2 guys coming up the hill appear to be wearing Arab head dress, so if the "frontier" is being defended, which frontier is it??
Stu

There were so many "frontiers" being fought over during that time period it would be hard to pick one, it is possible that the backround figures represent Afghans.

[Victrix]

Originally Posted by estcrh

There were so many "frontiers" being fought over during that time period it would be hard to pick one, it is possible that the backround figures represent Afghans.

With all due respect, the figures in the foreground hardly look Afghan. It seems to me that this illustration shows two residents of the Balkans locked in mortal combat. It could very well be a Montenegrin and an Albanian, and the frontier in question would then be Ottoman. The mountain people of the Balkans have a reputation of being particularly fierce. In Northern Albania they also have the nasty custom from medieval times of blood feuds (vendettas -avenge blood for blood) which can continue for generations.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Victrix

With all due respect, the figures in the foreground hardly look Afghan.

I said that the "backround" figures may represent Afghans.

[Victrix]

Originally Posted by estcrh

I said that the "backround" figures may represent Afghans.

Ottomans, more likely.