Moroccan axe?

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by fernando

Sorry my nonsense but, wouldn't those be more in the pierced blade style ... and no birds (animals) representation, as per Muslim customs ?

Don't worry, Muslim weapons are full of birds, especially Indian ones, there are forbidden in mosques no more..

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Don't worry, Muslim weapons are full of birds, especially Indian ones, there are forbidden in mosques no more..

Indeed, the depiction of worshipped Idols is forbidden, the extension to ANY depiction of sentient beings is a minority. Even the Taliban, who destroy non-islamic historical art are not above depicting themselves in art, photography and in videos. They even may have Photographs of their Idolised Leaders, which is surely forbidden and deserves the severest penalty for them and those who idolise them.

[ariel]

I think Fernando’s inversion of the axe head is correct.
The butts of Indian axes very often carried an element representing some kind of living creature, just like here
IMHO it is from India.

[kronckew]

Thanks, that seems logical...

Googled 'Indian axe' - that was useless as google thinks native Americans came from the Indian sub continent.

Indo-persian worked better, found a couple with very much the same bird, but symmetrically bladed axes, they were listed as mughal. Using mughal axe if found two heads very much like mine. Without hafts & no origin listed. Finally found a very close head shown in fernando's alignment, but with a round haft and socket. It was listed with a somewhat less than useful description as "Old Indo Persian Mughal Islamic Scripts Ottoman Turkish Arab Talismanic War Axe".

I think I'll refer to it as 'Mughal Indian'.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by kronckew

... Googled 'Indian axe' - that was useless as google thinks native Americans came from the Indian sub continent...

You should Google in my lingo; we name them differently. Indio is the native American and Indiano is the ihnabitant of India.