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			Jawa, Lombok, Bali. Sumbawa, etc.
		 
		
		
		
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			Bali and Jawa...
		 
		
		
		
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			Sumatra...
		 
		
		
		
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			Here and there....
		 
		
		
		
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			Sulawesi, Jawa, Bali and more...
		 
		
		
		
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			Pity there were no photographers in the 16th century, David; but there were painters and chroniclers to leave us images ... and history  
		
		
		
			  .By the way ... It is admittable that, the Javanese features & attire as in the watercolor executed by a naive artist of the period, do not correspond as whole to reality but, the use and purpose of the keris is as precise as described by Tomé Pires (1465-1540) and Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (1500-1559) . Last edited by fernando; 11th August 2021 at 03:54 PM.  | 
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			I was searching cameroonese pictures for something completely different, but I thought those might still be interesting. 
		
		
		
			-"Kirdi musician", dagger, Far North Cameroon - Mayo-Sava - Mora, 1931 - 1933 (http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/explorer...kirdi/page/25/) -"Funerals of Muktele man", dagger, Far North Cameroon - Mandara, 1968 (http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/explorer...ktele/page/11/) -"Ironmonger stall", newly made daggers, Far North Cameroon - Mayo Sava - Mayo Plata, november 1982 (http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/explorer...iller/page/44/)  | 
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			Mongolian Archers first half 20thC.
		 
		
		
		
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			Neat. Bet those guys could shot the eye out a bug from 70 yards. 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	Curious, what's the sword the guy on the right in the first pic is carrying?  | 
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			 Men from Trabzon armed with Yataghans, ball butt flintlock pistols, Shishane with strange shoulder holsters, and Russian Berdan No.1  | 
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