Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[gp]

Originally Posted by fernando

Beautiful pictures, gp.
But ... where are the "People with Ethnographic Arms" in them ? .

guess perhaps room to start a new topic like these kind of historic items ?

but to please your puristic rule; picture added now

Solution to a question....

[fernando]

Yes, obviously a new topic indeed. This one has hardly something to do with it .

[gp]

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[fernando]

Originally Posted by gp

guess the weapons were the most important item here to discuss, never thought we were puristic like the inquisition within a certain topic...

C'mon gp. This is the one only topic dedicated to period people with Ethno weapons. As if you had no chance to post those arrowheads in a more adequate thread ... even in a new topic. I will skip over the puristic part !

[AvtoGaz]

Armenian warrior from Zeytun

[gp]

Kalmuk from a most interesting geographic book from 1618

[francantolin]

Authentic pics more than this kind of ''warrior'' pictures where men seems just dressed like that for a souvenir picture mardi gras ...
( I did the same at the Alhambra in Granada , for few buckets, dressed with arabo-andalous clothes and holding a large khanjar.. maybe one time I'll post it 😁

Originally Posted by AvtoGaz

Armenian warrior from Zeytun

[francantolin]

Other briganti / bandits from Bisaccia /Irpinia

Around same period: 1862

[AvtoGaz]

Originally Posted by francantolin

Authentic pics more than this kind of ''warrior'' pictures where men seems just dressed like that for a souvenir picture mardi gras ...

Its not a souvenir picture, they really were just that heavily armed in everyday life. It was really not uncommon at all for many of the peoples of Anatolia and the Balkans.

"In front of and behind the mules or at their sides, walked robust young men; they had light and narrow clogs at their feet; woolen breeches wrapped around their legs; a reddish belt tightened their waist, contained first pistols and carried the leather powder magazines; from the belt hung the half-meter long sabers, next to small powder boxes and bags which contained bullets: their busts were covered with jackets of variegated wool, the sleeves rolled up to the elbows; and the very long sleeves of their shirts, tied at their ends, passed behind their necks; at their backs, on the right side, stood the rifles, having barrels a meter long, and flat triangular stocks; they wore the Tunisian fez, wrapped in large red silk kefié, rolled up several times, giving a terrible appearance to their faces; They were all tall with blond moustaches curled up on their alert and young faces : they were the brave men of Zeïtoun." -Zeïtoun: Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'insurrection de 1895