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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th October 2025, 06:09 PM
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Posted By Mercenary
Probably much earlier: ...

Probably much earlier:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpost.php?p=210206&postcount=6
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th October 2025, 02:17 PM
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Posted By Mercenary
Jim, thanks for sharing this beautiful dagger! ...

Jim, thanks for sharing this beautiful dagger!

Rajput culture largely followed Mughal culture. Your dagger is closer to Deccan culture.

P.S. Lumping the Deccan sultanates and the Vijayanagara...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st June 2025, 01:36 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 28,896
Posted By Mercenary
It is very possible. Usually in akhara, kalari,...

It is very possible. Usually in akhara, kalari, festivals and ceremonies any weapon made recently and even from aluminum or something else is used. So in the case of your sword, such a combination of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st May 2025, 06:45 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 28,896
Posted By Mercenary
Jim, thank you, you are right, this object is...

Jim, thank you, you are right, this object is from a "living" culture and was used as a weapon in traditional martial arts. And if the handle is new (19th-20th centuries), then the blade, as you...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 12th April 2025, 05:10 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 59,932
Posted By Mercenary
I suspect that most of the swords commonly called...

I suspect that most of the swords commonly called as "patissa" and the like, known as "South Indian" swords of the 16th-17th centuries, came into collections as a result of the suppression of the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 28th February 2025, 03:13 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 46,478
Posted By Mercenary
Tim, thanks a lot! I suppose this place has...

Tim, thanks a lot! I suppose this place has ellipse form like all (?) Indonesian bowl-shaped hilt.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 27th February 2025, 03:06 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 43,115
Posted By Mercenary
In India, there was no clear distinction between...

In India, there was no clear distinction between the sacred and the real. For the owner, his weapon was simultaneously combat, ritual and ceremonial.
Decorating a weapon is initially its animation...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 27th February 2025, 08:12 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 43,115
Posted By Mercenary
This is an Indian and then an Indo-Muslim...

This is an Indian and then an Indo-Muslim feature. This is what animates the sword. The Indian weapon is a subject, not an object.

But pearls in the blade (or their metal analogue) are already a...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th February 2025, 01:45 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 46,478
Posted By Mercenary
Iron hilt of talwar and piso pedang

Colleagues, there is a problem of how to distinguish Indian iron talwar hilts with bowl-shaped pommels from similar hilts of piso pedang. Besides the size of the bowled-pommel itself there must be...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th January 2024, 02:13 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 108,048
Posted By Mercenary
Thank you. But I was wrong. Southern Iran,...

Thank you. But I was wrong. Southern Iran, Shiraz, not Eastern Iraq. I'm sorry.
I know a lot, but I remember little of it ))
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th January 2024, 11:57 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 108,048
Posted By Mercenary
I think that Central Asian shashkas are just...

I think that Central Asian shashkas are just “cousins” of Caucasian (and later Russian) ones, and not a direct borrowing. They often resemble Khyber knives in design.
The common ancestor of all...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 9th January 2024, 02:41 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 59,932
Posted By Mercenary
The main problem is that in the Indian...

The main problem is that in the Indian subcontinent, proper names, unlike European languages, were used only for significant things. For everything else, general generic concepts or derivatives from...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th December 2023, 01:39 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 19,046
Posted By Mercenary
Mazandaran dagger

I am sorry for Google translate:

"... but the very first known image of such a dagger belonged to the Indian master Bishandas and was painted by him in 1616-1617, when he was in Persia, sent there...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 7th December 2023, 03:22 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 54,475
Posted By Mercenary
Thank you very much! The point is that in...

Thank you very much!
The point is that in origin all such items were sickles for agricultural work, as their names suggest.
hansia - sickle
Arival or aruval - sickle
All other names that include...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 4th December 2023, 12:08 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 54,475
Posted By Mercenary
This is a common type of peasant tool throughout...

This is a common type of peasant tool throughout India (including Northern India) and is still used as a weapon.
It has different names depending on the region, often as a simple derivative of the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 02:32 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 26,776
Posted By Mercenary
By the way, one more fact. Quite quickly, real...

By the way, one more fact. Quite quickly, real Chinese porcelain began to remain in Iran, and instead, Iranian copies began to be supplied to Europe. But Europe developed its own high art, but...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 02:23 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 26,776
Posted By Mercenary
In the original it is a chrysanthemum

In the original it is a chrysanthemum
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 02:20 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 26,776
Posted By Mercenary
My research showed that the starting point was...

My research showed that the starting point was Chinese ceramics of the 14th and 15th centuries, and later porcelain supplied to Iran and beyond. After Iran, this element independently appears in the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 02:19 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 26,776
Posted By Mercenary
I noticed that such an element was often used to...

I noticed that such an element was often used to decorate exactly those parts of decorative items that visually correspond to the bolster of a knife, namely: the necks of jugs and teapots, vases and...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 02:04 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 26,776
Posted By Mercenary
I found the article in both English and Russian...

I found the article in both English and Russian here:
https://darwinmuseum.academia.edu/DmitryMiloserdov

Good article, I can’t find fault with anything, so I’ll just add an interesting fact.
I...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 09:50 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 35,092
Posted By Mercenary
Simhanadalokeshvara, Nepal, 14-15 AC

Simhanadalokeshvara, Nepal, 14-15 AC
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 09:47 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 35,092
Posted By Mercenary
Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita

Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd December 2023, 09:44 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 35,092
Posted By Mercenary
I am sorry for Google translate: "...given that...

I am sorry for Google translate:
"...given that Nepal was cut off from normal cultural connections with the rest of India in the early 13th century by the Muslim invasion of Bengal and Bihar, it can...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 26th July 2022, 03:29 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 46,193
Posted By Mercenary
Sorry, I have to repeat the question: ...

Sorry, I have to repeat the question:




I have already tried to explain to you in several topics that it is impossible to study the history and history of weapons in particular using "a quick...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 26th July 2022, 02:41 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 46,193
Posted By Mercenary
Identical blades... Ok. The handle, as I...

Identical blades... Ok. The handle, as I understand it, was borrowed from the European rondel dagger, and some differences do not count?


Very strange. On that forum you were told that the knife...
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