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Old 1st March 2017, 11:31 PM   #23
Nonoy Tan
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Originally Posted by Gustav
Regarding Kampilan as a curved cutlass, just a coincidence more likely, considering the "artistic licence":

all of you surely know the picture of a Visayan Timawa or Tumao from the Boxer Codex (c.1590). Note the small signs on the blade, which remind a bit of chinese characters.
Not Bisayans of the Philippines, but a Brunei warrior with his consort.
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