Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Greeks and yataghans...It's always better to talk...

Fellow on the left has a Gasser revolver in his pocket; I wonder why he didn't just shoot the other fellow.

[fernando]

Ngungunhane, Mdungazwe Ngungunyane, Nxumalo, N'gungunhana, known as GUNGUNHANA, the last king of the empire of Gaza (Mozambique) and last of the Jamine monarchy, born 1850 died 1906 in Angra do Heroismo (Azores), to where he was sent to exile in 1898, in the company of his six wifes
... and a picture of some of his Landis, taken in 1890.


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[VANDOO]

STAGED PICTURES OF SHAM BATTLE, HEAD TAKING ECT. ILOILO PHILIPPINES, IGORROTES

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by Rick

Fellow on the left has a Gasser revolver in his pocket; I wonder why he didn't just shoot the other fellow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o

if you look at him at the start of the scene he looks all tuckered out, hot and sweaty - that's not from running, he had a bad case of the trots and he ad libbed the scene, which was supposed to carry on a lot longer with him interacting with the swordsman, but he wasn't in any condition to do all that, so he improvised. it turned out so well they kept it in, and a legend was born.

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Rick

Fellow on the left has a Gasser revolver in his pocket; I wonder why he didn't just shoot the other fellow.

That is exactly what happened here.

The Illustrated London News, Volume 76, Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited, 1880

[kahnjar1]

Not sure if this one has been posted before. It appears in Elgood's Arms and Armour of Arabia, and is worthy of showing here.
Stu