Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 09:53 PM
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Don’t we exaggerate the anti-iconic customs of...
Don’t we exaggerate the anti-iconic customs of Shia and Sunni?
Both Turkish Sultans and Persian Shahs invited European artists to have their portrais painted , Iranians had their khanjars with...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 04:13 PM
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Re. Your penultimate post.
In the list on top...
Re. Your penultimate post.
In the list on top of it, points 1,2,and 3 are correct.
But to call Qutb Quli Shah a “ peasant” would be a slight exaggeration.
Overall, this list is ‘true, true and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 08:06 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 12:17 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th July 2022, 11:10 PM
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Mercenary,
You are correct: I used a...
Mercenary,
You are correct: I used a stenographic style to cite your text, and just wrote about simply contacts vs. cultural influence. Can you support your assertion with some evidence? IMHO, it...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th July 2022, 12:00 PM
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Ren Ren,
I am a bit flabbergasted by your...
Ren Ren,
I am a bit flabbergasted by your comments.
First, I never claimed that Zheng He's trips were the source of Chinese swords entering India. It was simply in response to Mercenary's...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th July 2022, 11:45 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2022, 05:54 PM
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Ian,
There are no contentions regarding...
Ian,
There are no contentions regarding collective, country-wise, quality of authorship. I was talking about a particular book written by a particular group of authors.
This book was...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2022, 04:31 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2022, 01:08 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2022, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 48
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Viking age ended in 11 century. The earlier...
Viking age ended in 11 century. The earlier origin of “Varangian” sword are irrelevant to our discussion. What counts is an incontrovertible fact that it was Vikings ( Normans, Norsemen, Varangians ,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2022, 03:46 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2022, 03:40 AM
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I had to go to a big review by Sally Church...
I had to go to a big review by Sally Church doi:10.2307/40727457.
She discusses the plausibility of the claim that Zheng He’s flotilla contained 450 feet long trade ships.
Everything is based on...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd July 2022, 01:05 PM
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Obviously, earlier researchers did commit...
Obviously, earlier researchers did commit attributional errors when there was no ironclad information about the objects.
The correct attribution of Laz Bicagi appeared on this Forum in 2004 with...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd July 2022, 12:06 PM
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Since Philip Tom with his vast knowledge of...
Since Philip Tom with his vast knowledge of Eastern weapons has joined the discussion, I would like to re-address my question to him:
- what are his thoughts about the peculiar form of the chape of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd July 2022, 05:59 AM
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The " Front Asian", allegedly Kazakh, example ...
The " Front Asian", allegedly Kazakh, example from Tashkent from the Russian Ethnographic Muzeum was not the only bizarre item from that album.
Items #162 and 163 both with Laz configuration of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd July 2022, 01:59 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd July 2022, 03:24 PM
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Lee,
I know, it is a frustrating experience to...
Lee,
I know, it is a frustrating experience to show a sword for discussion and get zero responses.
In your case it is not so much lack of interest in a particular posting as the lack of knowledge...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd July 2022, 04:08 AM
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Jim,
Re. Your mention of a Laz Bichagi thought...
Jim,
Re. Your mention of a Laz Bichagi thought to be of Kurdish-Armenian origin, in the generally execrable album of weapons from the Russian Ethnographic Museum, #191 is an example of a sword with...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd July 2022, 03:55 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2022, 01:14 PM
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Jim,
Thanks for your detailed ( as usual)...
Jim,
Thanks for your detailed ( as usual) exposition tracing the development of our knowledge about those peculiar Trabzon swords.
As we see, even well before Tirri Danish authors mulled over...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2022, 01:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2022, 12:56 AM
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I am not changing the subject: it was you who...
I am not changing the subject: it was you who mentioned “Russian” swords of 13 century. I just clarified that while we can legitimately speak of swords manufactured in Russia after ~ 15-16 century,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th June 2022, 11:36 PM
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Tirry was wrong attributing Laz Bicagi to...
Tirry was wrong attributing Laz Bicagi to N.Africa, no doubt.
But we still do not know whence the inspiration for this weapon came.
Tirry based his attribution mainly on two factors: straighten...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th June 2022, 06:23 AM
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