A LARGE DAO TYPE WEAPON FOR COMMENT
 

DEAR FRIENDS I RECENTLY BOUGHT THIS LARGE DAO TYPE WEAPON ,ITS 70 CMS LONG
IT REMINDS ME OF THE NEPALESE SACRAFICIAL WEAPON RAM DAO
BUT SOMEONE WILL ABLE TO EXACTLY PLACE THE ETHNIC GROUP WHERE IT COMES FROM
REGARDS
RAJESH

Hello Rjesh,

It looks more like a tool to me. More exactly a knd of axe/machete. :shrug:

A pretty standard cane cutting machete with some local ?silver? dress.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=c...achete&imgrc=_

Gavin

THANKS HAS A BIT OF FANCY DECOR AND THE BEAK ON THE TOP OF BLADE,CHEERS

THANKS GAVIN,HAS THE FANCY WORK ON THE HANDLE AS WELL AS THE BEAK TYPE OF HOOK,WHICH MAY HAVE A PURPOSE
DO YOU THINK IT COULD BE NORTH EAST INDIA,ASSAM ,NAGA ETC
KIND REGARDS

SO COULD WE CONCLUDE ITS FOR CUTTING CANE,COULD ANY ONE SAY WHICH ETHNIC GROUP OR COUNTRY ITS FROM?.SUGARCANE IS GROWN ALL OVER ASIA,AFRICA AND PARTS OF THE CARRIBEAN AND PACIFIC COUNTRYS
CHEERS

This looks like a "nifo oti" to me, a combo machete and bill hook, with a somewhat longish straight handle, used as a tool and weapon in Samoa. The steel blades were first supplied by cutlery manufacturers in Germany and Britain starting in Victorian times (Samoa was one of Imperial Germany's few colonies, ceded to the UK and US during WW I after British victories over the German fleet in the Pacific). When I lived in Hawaii, I had the opportunity to see the local Samoan community perform dances with these, twirled around in pairs and often set alight after dunking the blades in kerosene, for the entertainment of tourists craving "authentic traditional dancing".

Looks like a old, fancily furnished sugarcane knife. Common in Caribbean and parts of Latin America.

THANKS PHILIP
THATS GREAT INFORMATION,NZ IS VERY CLOSE TO SAMOA SO THAT CONNECTION IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE AS I BOUGHT IT LOCALLY AT AUCTION.
REGARDS RAJESH