Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th April 2010, 05:25 PM
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I'm certainly not an expert, but we've had...
I'm certainly not an expert, but we've had discussions over the years on how to test whether the hilt is rhino horn. Use the advanced search to check some of the older archives.
It's also worth...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th April 2010, 04:13 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 17,609
For traditional SEA firearms, they do show up...
For traditional SEA firearms, they do show up here on occasion. Check out this thread (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8847&highlight=flintlock+vietnam).
Otherwise, you're right,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2010, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 13
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th April 2010, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 38,086
Hi Neil,
I suspect the main use of the rings...
Hi Neil,
I suspect the main use of the rings was for storage and transport. Weapons could be carried on poles or suspended by hooks on a wall, and the blade wouldn't get dull. On knives, it also...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st March 2010, 05:02 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,394
Use of a "kachin dao"
Hi All,
Just watched a neat NOVA entitled "rat attack." It's about mautam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam), which is where bamboo in the Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur all flowers and...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2010, 06:46 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 40,007
Hi Hotspur,
It's a good point. Wikipedia is...
Hi Hotspur,
It's a good point. Wikipedia is not perfect. Thing is, accuracy was less important than speed, and I was more concerned with figuring out if you were probably right than what the...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2010, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 40,007
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2010, 04:28 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 40,007
Hi Hotspur,
You're probably right, but the...
Hi Hotspur,
You're probably right, but the deep archeological evidence from all over Europe (British Isles and mainland) shows that longbows were widespread throughout, from the mesolithic. For...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd March 2010, 04:19 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 22,234
Hi Nonoy,
The Austronesians originated on...
Hi Nonoy,
The Austronesians originated on Taiwan, and then spread south into Indonesia. According to the archeologists and linguists, it's the origin of that group of people. There were people...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd March 2010, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 40,007
Hi Jim and all,
It's a common story that the...
Hi Jim and all,
It's a common story that the English longbow developed from a Welsh predecessor. I don't know the origin of this story, but I figure it's probably true, given how the English...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st March 2010, 09:40 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 40,007
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th March 2010, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 9,142
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th March 2010, 10:43 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,062
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th March 2010, 03:55 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 22,234
I suspect the tradition of ceremonial bronze...
I suspect the tradition of ceremonial bronze knives was widespread, because they showed up in Korea as well. However, the Korean knives don't look at all like these, and as far as I can tell, their...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th March 2010, 11:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,239
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Forum: European Armoury
9th March 2010, 10:44 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,239
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Forum: European Armoury
9th March 2010, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,239
Thanks Rick.
I was thinking of a slam...
Thanks Rick.
I was thinking of a slam rifle as one possibility. The fact that Kino wanted people to sign a waiver before attempting to fire it made it, less than ideal. They've also got the...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th March 2010, 09:12 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,239
OT question about gun mechanisms
Hi All,
This is an off-topic question, but it involves ethnographic firearms. I'm writing a fiction manuscript, and I'm trying to design a fictional fire arm.
The gun has to be manufactured...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th March 2010, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 45,778
Hi Chregu,
You could be right. See...
Hi Chregu,
You could be right. See URL=http://www.trussel.com/kir/less01.htm]link to Kiribati language[/URL] . Thanks for spotting that. I took the names in the illustration at face value (it's...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th March 2010, 06:01 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,326
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st March 2010, 04:11 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,567
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2010, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 45,778
Back a number of years ago, a forumite actually...
Back a number of years ago, a forumite actually chopped some cardboard with a shark-tooth weapon, just to see how it cut. He wasn't able to slash with it. As I recall, the teeth went in just fine,...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd February 2010, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 7,474
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st February 2010, 10:35 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 45,778
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st February 2010, 04:10 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 35,974
Hi Tim,
The tie-in of interest is that, with...
Hi Tim,
The tie-in of interest is that, with the fire knife, we have a traditional blade that is a direct and known descendent of a club, the nifo oti. Offhand, I can't think of another good...
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