Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[SidJ]

Warlpiri family, Australia, 1920s. I love this image. The physique of that warrior is impressive.

[cyten]

Albanian with Turkish Shishane

[gp]

Bosnian gent around 1890-1900

[gp]

another Bosnian man and a print from a monthly paper showing the Bosnisch-Herzegowinsche Infanterie Regiment marching in a Bosnian town ( either Mostar or Sarajevo)

[mahratt]

Officers Turkmen (Tekin) cavalry regiment (subdivision army Russian Empire) with traditional Turkmen weapons: shamshirs and kards

[gp]

Originally Posted by mahratt

Officers Turkmen (Tekin) cavalry regiment (subdivision army Russian Empire) with traditional Turkmen weapons: shamshirs and kards

this kard looks beautiful to me , more than interesting ;
what kind of kard would it be? from which country / origin ?

[mahratt]

Originally Posted by gp

this kard looks beautiful to me , more than interesting ;
what kind of kard would it be? from which country / origin ?

This is a Turkmen Kard knife from Central Asia. Turkmen tribes lived in the 19th - early 20th centuries on the territory and on the border of the Khiva Khanate.