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24th January 2007, 12:14 AM
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Supposed to be a Tibetan monk shoulder or leg ball joint, carved.
Not perfectly sure it is Tibetan, but it is human. The doctor who replaced my knee and my chiropracter both agree on this. 
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24th January 2007, 12:28 AM
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I got to tell you Bill; that baby gives me the willies for some reason.
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24th January 2007, 12:36 AM
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Mine is a cheap Indian Tulwar. <hangs head in embassassment>
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24th January 2007, 12:59 AM
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The Tibetans used a lot of human bones. They wanted to uinderscore the tramsient nature of life. You often find masks with five skulls across the top, like points on a crown. This signnifies the deaths of the five senses. The Tibetans used to make me nervous. Now I get more "willies" from the Aghora. But perhaps we should not digress for fear of the thread bing hijacked into extraneous topics. I am interested in the other avatars. I am enjoying knowing more about the people here! |
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24th January 2007, 01:19 AM
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Mine is a grouping of shamshir intended to illustrate the difference in blade curvature between earlier examples(top two blades are probably 17th century) and later examples(middle blade is 18th century and bottom two are 19th century).
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24th January 2007, 02:05 AM
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A primordial wootz rose.
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