Thank you Rick for bringing us back to the ethnographic aspects of this topic. We have traveled far and wide, including westerners. Many of the Ilanun (Iranum) were a plundering group. I posted last year some drawings from the 1840s in the following thread showing some of these pirates:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...&postcount=498
Some of the weapons, including
lantaka, are illustrated.