Exceptionaly rare knife from Formosa/Taiwan

yuanzhumin · 27th March 2006, 05:26 PM

Thank you Tim. For you and the others that are interested I posted hereafter the pictures of the two most beautiful of these kind of ceremonial or ritual knives that I have ever seen.
The first one is very long with 56 cm and is one of the masterpiece of the Shunye Museum of Aboriginal art, in Taipei, and the second one, measuring 42 cm, is in the collections of the Sankokan Museum of the Tenri University, in Japan.

Tim Simmons · 27th March 2006, 05:33 PM

Superb artistry and casting on the second example. How wonderful to have one, even if not quite as fine as these two.

Rick · 27th March 2006, 05:54 PM

These are lovely examples !
Please keep showing us Taiwanese ethnograpich weapons Yuanzhumin , they are seldom seen on the forum .

Nonoy Tan · 14th March 2010, 03:32 AM

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Taiwan does not have the tin needed to make bronze and none of the aborigine tribes possessed bronze making technology, so some scholars believe the bronze knives originated in the Dongshan civilization of Vietnam because of their shape and material.

Hi Yuanzhumin,

Do scholars theorize that the bronze knives were exported to Formosa?

Did the indigenous peoples of Formosa attempt to make similar knives using iron?

27th March 2006, 05:26 PM	#1
yuanzhumin Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ex-Taipei, Taiwan, now in Shanghai, China Posts: 180	More of these ceremonial knives Thank you Tim. For you and the others that are interested I posted hereafter the pictures of the two most beautiful of these kind of ceremonial or ritual knives that I have ever seen. The first one is very long with 56 cm and is one of the masterpiece of the Shunye Museum of Aboriginal art, in Taipei, and the second one, measuring 42 cm, is in the collections of the Sankokan Museum of the Tenri University, in Japan. Attached Images

27th March 2006, 05:33 PM	#2
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,930	Superb artistry and casting on the second example. How wonderful to have one, even if not quite as fine as these two.

27th March 2006, 05:54 PM	#3
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,378	These are lovely examples ! Please keep showing us Taiwanese ethnograpich weapons Yuanzhumin , they are seldom seen on the forum .