Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th February 2010, 04:52 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th January 2010, 06:38 PM
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Spanish javelins in the New World?
In my surfing of the Internet I ran across this dissertation on the Apaches and the following quote from it:
http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20011/carlisle_jeffrey_d/dissertation.pdf
"War...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th January 2010, 12:33 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th December 2009, 11:22 PM
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I don't know how helpful this will be, but I'll...
I don't know how helpful this will be, but I'll throw out a few conjectures. As it turns out, I hope to see a friend who I went over to Taiwan with back in 1987. I came back after a year, but he's...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st November 2009, 01:36 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
20th November 2009, 01:46 PM
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I don't think too many Indians boiled hide, but...
I don't think too many Indians boiled hide, but rather use hides to boil things (stone boiling). Some tribes steamed buffalo hide over pits as part of a shrinking/thickening process for shields. On...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th November 2009, 01:47 AM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: European Armoury
19th November 2009, 04:14 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th October 2009, 01:53 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
23rd September 2009, 09:59 PM
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Replies: 8
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I forgot to mention horses. Yeah, the Pawnees...
I forgot to mention horses. Yeah, the Pawnees probably had them by this time, but they weren't too common that far north at that time. Furthermore, the Pawnees were an agricultural tribe who spent...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
23rd September 2009, 09:12 PM
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Replies: 8
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Fearn is on the right track with this one. A...
Fearn is on the right track with this one. A little more speificity is needed to answer the question, which is pretty broad. Since we're talking about Villasur, I'd say you'd be better off asking...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th September 2009, 04:59 AM
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Fearn,
I don't doubt you're right, but part of...
Fearn,
I don't doubt you're right, but part of the problem is maybe we're trying to cover too much ground with the term. If, as I said, you're talking about the more overt weapons that would be...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th September 2009, 03:03 AM
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In some cases they were also used like machetes...
In some cases they were also used like machetes as much as fighting swords, and on utility blade a big guard isn't that useful. It might be a hinderance since it would catch on the vegetation. This...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th September 2009, 03:34 PM
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Don't forget the sharpened thumbnails for eye...
Don't forget the sharpened thumbnails for eye gouging. Would that be considered an ethnographic improvised knife?
I've also read one account that shows that bayonets were used at least on one...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd September 2009, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 27
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Pallas,
I've read that part of the reason...
Pallas,
I've read that part of the reason the New World was relatively disease free is that the cold temperatures of Beringia killed most germs, viruses etc. Assuming this is true, then maybe the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd September 2009, 04:29 AM
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Replies: 81
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At the risk of throwing another wrinkle in this...
At the risk of throwing another wrinkle in this discussion, maybe in addition to ethnography we might want to add gender? We've got the Amazon priestess of the Philippines, and one of the versions...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd September 2009, 04:14 AM
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Replies: 27
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This probably should go in the thread about...
This probably should go in the thread about Spanish colonial leather armor, but it sort of fits with the Wichita bit I previously posted, In his book "Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Trails" Steve...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st September 2009, 01:46 PM
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Fearn,
You raise a very good point. Disease...
Fearn,
You raise a very good point. Disease would be my other argument against extended contact. There wasn't enough newcomers (and their livestock) to be vectors of disease. Or if there a large...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st September 2009, 04:26 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st August 2009, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 81
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Hebrew or Arabic was the original language, of...
Hebrew or Arabic was the original language, of course, and plenty of ethnographic blades were used to prove that point. At least it was Semetic, and of course the animals understand it otherwise...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st August 2009, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 81
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My Kiowa ancestors came out from underground...
My Kiowa ancestors came out from underground through a hollow log as ants. A pregnant woman got caught and that is why there aren't too many of us. On my Chickasaw side, we came from the west and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th August 2009, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 81
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Forum: European Armoury
29th August 2009, 10:40 PM
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Replies: 27
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I read Fell's book America BC years ago. The...
I read Fell's book America BC years ago. The problem is, he posits not just Celts, but a whole mess of different folks roaming around the US. He wrote another book which claims Scandinavians ...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th August 2009, 02:27 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 29,536
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Forum: European Armoury
28th August 2009, 02:27 AM
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