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Old 22nd April 2006, 09:39 AM   #1
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Default "Bagobo Golok"?

Back home again and recieved this eBay sword that probably some of you recognise?
It resembles the Bagobo Golok pictured in Stone p. 249, except missing the large cast brass piece on the handle.
Searching old forum threads it also resembles the Mandaya/Manobo swords that Ian and Rick has posted.

http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000548.html
http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001052.html

The seller, who is a member of this forum, wasn't convinced that the scabbard matched the sword.
But I find some of the patterns on the blade similar to those on the scabbard? And the blade fits the scabbard.

Look forward to all comments.

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Old 22nd April 2006, 04:22 PM   #2
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This looks very much like the sword that the unknown native was holding in a picture that Ian posted asking for identification and tribe .
I can't remember the thread title but I copped the picture to try a photoshop for more detail (sorry Ian) .
Anyway here's the picture ; maybe it will jog someones memory ; I also recall that someone weighed in on this thread many months later offering an answer .
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Old 22nd April 2006, 04:53 PM   #3
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Thanks Rick,

I remember that thread. Here is the link:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=235

Maybe I am wrong but I don't think it's the same sword.
Actually that bolo's blade resembled more the strange Y-bolos found in old
Filipino collections as well as in Hein's Indonesische Schwertgriffe?

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Old 22nd April 2006, 04:59 PM   #4
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Yes , you're correct ; plus the spine on the example you show is straight .
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Old 22nd April 2006, 10:56 PM   #5
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Default Maybe N. Borneo

Michael:

I'm confident your sword is not Bagobo. Apart from the fat bellied blade, it has no features of Bagobo work and the scabbard is wrong.

I'm going to suggest N. Borneo for this one, primarily because of the blade decoration. An old thread on the previous Forum included examples of N. Borneo blades that had similar dot designs. These were recently made blades for the most part, but they seem to resemble the designs on your blade. That thread is here: http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001304.html

John might have some further thoughts.

Ian.

P.S. Does that disk guard look a little like the guard on a pakayun?

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Old 23rd April 2006, 04:26 AM   #6
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Hello VVV,

Here is a very similar piece to yours with a kampilan style blade.
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