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28th July 2016, 06:08 PM
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Arms Historian
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Route 66
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Outstanding examples of Abyssinian craftsmanship Martin!!
Especially like the almost Picasso-esque style of the Lion of Judah! It is curious about the character of the interlocked chain type motif noted by Gav, and wonder if we might find a descriptive term. As he notes this does appear on a good number of examples. Maybe some references on Ethiopian arts and crafts might have something? Thank you so much for sharing these!!! |
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28th July 2016, 07:21 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Greetings, Martin. Very fine examples. I have a few. I mostly find them with daggers, but, whenever possible, I find them a "new home" and fit them to sword scabbards. Here is a Dubat (Somali warrior) dagger that I recently found. The silver "tip" decoration is very obviously from a sword scabbard and this is the way it would look once fitted as per the original design. Unfortunately, a few of the "bells" were lost. Cheers, RON
Last edited by roanoa; 28th July 2016 at 09:45 PM. |
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28th July 2016, 11:48 PM
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EAAF Staff
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
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I do LOVE Ethiopian silver work!!
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