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Old 20th March 2010, 03:46 PM   #9
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Pepperskull and migueldiaz, awesome! Thanks for the insight!

VANDOO, I totally agree, the everyday tools and weapons are often overlooked.

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the last blade, the one with the red-shirted farmer, is a visayan utility bolo called a lagaraw (pronounced log-a-RAO, and the last syllable rhymes with cow).
lagaraw = log-a-rao....

that's oddly similar to how the Taiwanese aboriginal Atayal tribe's headhunting knife is pronounced...

laraw = loh-rao... ao like in cow

coincidence or similarities in Austronesian languages?
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