Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th November 2019, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 183
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Yes I know the elephant armours, but the...
Yes I know the elephant armours, but the underside of the trunk was not protected.
Someone I knew in Denmark, had once bought an elephant armour in India - years ago, but it was confiscated by the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th November 2019, 04:10 PM
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Replies: 183
Views: 329,490
I think it must be relatively save to say, that...
I think it must be relatively save to say, that the tusk swords and the trunk swords were not used at the same time, or the elephant may have cut the trunk while wildly fighting.
Trunk swords would...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th November 2019, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 26,991
Ariel, since you mentioned it yourself.
In...
Ariel, since you mentioned it yourself.
In Hindu Arms and Ritual Robert Elgood, in chapter 8, shows a Gana (arms bearer for the great gods). It is from a cave temple and said to be from the 7th...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd November 2019, 03:51 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd November 2019, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 26,991
Ariel,
What shall I say? The best answer is, I...
Ariel,
What shall I say? The best answer is, I dont know. I have seen these swords in pictures, and the one on exhibition in Copenhagen, at The David Collection in 1982, but I have never researched...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd November 2019, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 26,991
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd November 2019, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 183
Views: 329,490
In the quote in post 106 Ludovico di Varthema...
In the quote in post 106 Ludovico di Varthema must have seen a trunk sword used according to the way he descrubes it.
I have not seen a trunk sword either, so maybe they were melted down when they...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st November 2019, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st November 2019, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 18,256
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th November 2019, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 183
Views: 329,490
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th November 2019, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 183
Views: 329,490
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th November 2019, 02:54 PM
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Replies: 183
Views: 329,490
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th November 2019, 09:14 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th November 2019, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th November 2019, 04:03 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th November 2019, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 18,256
When it comes to Indian armes - I am wonderig....
The last thread I made, was posted by about 9 people, but the on lookingers were more than 1500.
This makes me think, that there must be a lot of people interested in Indian arms - but you dont post...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th November 2019, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
Its a very nice bazuband.
I have often...
Its a very nice bazuband.
I have often wondered how they, with the primitive tools they had, were able to make these steel cuttings.
For those of you who like riddles. Have a look at the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th November 2019, 09:36 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
What I had in mind when I started the link was...
What I had in mind when I started the link was more like this.
There are a lot of peacocks, but to find them, you either need my catalogue, or to look after what peacocks looked like in the late...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th November 2019, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th November 2019, 04:10 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th November 2019, 10:23 AM
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Replies: 70
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th October 2019, 02:04 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
Like you write soldering cant have been a very...
Like you write soldering cant have been a very good solution, so some other method must have been used.
Kronckew, you have a nice south Indian katar, and maybe the south Indians, now and again,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th October 2019, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th October 2019, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
Yes Ariel, the hilt base and the blade is one...
Yes Ariel, the hilt base and the blade is one piece of steel, so the whole katar was made in one piece.
These steel cut pieces are fantastic, and when you think of the tools they had at the time it...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2019, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 82,319
Cut steel decorations on Indian arms
It s seldom writers comment on the decoration of the Indian weapons, but Hermann Goetz did in his book The Art and Architecture of Bikaner State, p. 125, 1950.
Cut steel decoration was far more...
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