Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2025, 05:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th July 2025, 06:28 AM
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I think we are onto something that this is...
I think we are onto something that this is something from the Carribbean. The numbers are very much in the 18th and 19th century style.. look at the downward sloping 7s.
I don't think it's African...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th July 2025, 04:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 12:54 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 12:23 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th June 2025, 11:54 PM
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Nice. Is the kukri an Indian kukri as I've...
Nice. Is the kukri an Indian kukri as I've noticed they generally lack a chakmak or if they have one there is never a tinder pouch in the scabbard.
As to kukris it does seem the other northern...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th June 2025, 09:03 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th June 2025, 05:33 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th June 2025, 04:59 AM
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Hi Yuri, yes I know the text has nothing to do...
Hi Yuri, yes I know the text has nothing to do with cyrillic . It is just random shaped by a person who can't ready cyrillic.
It is like the European mediaeval fantasy text Mongolian writing in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th June 2025, 11:28 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th June 2025, 11:26 AM
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Mexican knives from Baja california.
Mexican knives from Baja california.
regional ethnographic knives from mexico.
these are called "desert knives"--"cuchillos del desierto"
there is a large array of knives made around the city ...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th June 2025, 10:47 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th June 2025, 10:03 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th June 2025, 02:21 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st May 2025, 05:37 AM
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Hehe yeah I hope not I have some asmat bows and...
Hehe yeah I hope not I have some asmat bows and arrows about I was fooling with some the other daym. But I'd suspect the idea PNG arrows are poisoned is the bamboo or Palmwoods fighting arrows are...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2025, 04:09 PM
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Honestly I've never actually seen a poisoned...
Honestly I've never actually seen a poisoned arrow or spear from PNG.. but it's a diverse place.
There is some isolated groups using blowguns there.. in new Britain anyway ..but the darts are as...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st April 2025, 10:30 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th February 2025, 08:46 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th February 2025, 07:21 AM
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The Persians in that period produced very large...
The Persians in that period produced very large amounts of swords, mostly shamshir.. for export to the ottoman Empire, Arabia, North Africa and the Caucasus, but they also exported large amounts of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st January 2025, 09:35 AM
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Yep they pack a punch for sure.
The dog would...
Yep they pack a punch for sure.
The dog would not be walking of a blow from these for sure.
There is no written instructions for their use but I have seen some old black and white pictures of the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st December 2024, 02:18 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st December 2024, 05:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st December 2024, 05:02 AM
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A bonan axe
Here is a bonan style of axe, newly made, it cost about 6$ us in a weekend market I attended, they were selling livestock, nuts and metal products mostly.
The axe is basically identical to Mongol...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st December 2024, 04:47 AM
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Bonan belt knife
A bonan belt knife with its original retention thong.
This style typically has a diamond shaped handle crossesction .
The blade is asymmetrical.
The bonan seem to make more than a dozen very...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st December 2024, 04:30 AM
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