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24th July 2006, 11:01 AM
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Another try to put some more on the table:
A brief history lesson and a idealised "savages of Madagascar gravure" with WEAPONS (yeeeyyy...) http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exh...ky/unifier.htm A mysterious shieldfrom Madagascar: http://www.remnantsofritual.com/gallery/070.html An interesting account of slave trade and history in Madagascar mentioning Malagasy (word for native Madagascarian) spears: http://ritesofpassageblog.blogspot.c...ry-part-1.html |
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1st June 2008, 03:20 PM
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Go to AMNH site:
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/...ica_public.htm choice Madagascar & knife Luc |
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1st June 2008, 03:35 PM
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But I think the nicest knife from Madagascar is this kind of from the BARA people.
You can see a man sitting on the handle with a zebu and a crocodile, which are the reincarnation of ancestors, there is also a duck at the pommel, this bird is the intercessor between the life & death and a fecondity symbol. Note that in this knife the blade is not in the axe of the handle. Made of bronze and iron. Luc |
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