Arab Cutlasses of the Pirate Coast

A.alnakkas · 8th February 2024, 05:41 AM

Historic photos shows Qawasim leaders mainly carrying standard Omani swords and other full sized Arab swords that are likely imported from Sharqiya and some examples could very well be imported from Iraq.

I have not found any evidence of those short Yemeni swords being used there while I consistently find them solely coming out of Yemen.

Jim, you'd love this actually, a Yemeni sent me photos of about 30 of them. Some have much larger blades. Will email those images to you as sometimes I have trouble uploading images to the forum.

8th February 2024, 05:41 AM	#3
A.alnakkas Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Kuwait Posts: 1,339	Historic photos shows Qawasim leaders mainly carrying standard Omani swords and other full sized Arab swords that are likely imported from Sharqiya and some examples could very well be imported from Iraq. I have not found any evidence of those short Yemeni swords being used there while I consistently find them solely coming out of Yemen. Jim, you'd love this actually, a Yemeni sent me photos of about 30 of them. Some have much larger blades. Will email those images to you as sometimes I have trouble uploading images to the forum.