Formosa/Taiwanese austronesian tribal

ligpo2001 · 13th June 2007, 04:14 AM

I have gone through every single page and learned a lot. Thank you for sharing and congratulations for a very wonderful website!

Narciso

yuanzhumin · 14th June 2007, 03:21 AM

A thousand thanks, Andrew, Narciso and all the others.

The collection took me roughly 10 years to complete -and it's not finished - but the worst to deal with, during one year, was the website : it was a real headache ! www.formosatribal.com still needs many adjustments, but, anyway, the big work is done.

I hope to see many of our friends from this ethnographic weapons forum come and visit it.

By the way, Narciso, do you know if there is anything close to my website or my collection, on line, for the Philippines indigenous people, wether it is only concerning the weapons or the material culture in its whole ?

For the other members here, any comments on the formosan tribal weapons exhibited on line ? Sorry if the pictures are not always good.

Once more thank you all for your support.

yuanzhumin/Nicolas

ligpo2001 · 14th June 2007, 10:57 AM

Hi Nicolas,

Yes, there a couple of websites specializing in Philippine tribal stuff. For example:

http://home.chello.no/~andy.anderson/Page2.html

IMHO, it would be a challenge for anybody to come up with a good representative collection that would cover the entire peoples of the Philippines, as we have around 120+ cultural groups. A lifetime might not be enough to adequately study all these groups

Thus, scholars tend to specialize, which I think is a wise route.

Anyway, your site is cool indeed!

josh stout · 14th June 2007, 04:03 PM

Truly amazing work. I collect Chinese swords and these are completely new to me. The artifacts look more like what one would find in Borneo or New Guinea. The weapons have a heavy patina so it is hard to tell any details about the blades. Were they pattern welded? Where did the steel come from?

Nice stuff,
Josh

Ps. You show something called a spoon that looks like a haut culture high healed shoe carved of wood. It made me picture Paris Hilton walking through the rain forest in spike heals

13th June 2007, 04:14 AM	#1
ligpo2001 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 16	Congraulations! I have gone through every single page and learned a lot. Thank you for sharing and congratulations for a very wonderful website! Narciso

14th June 2007, 03:21 AM	#2
yuanzhumin Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ex-Taipei, Taiwan, now in Shanghai, China Posts: 180	A thousand thanks and a couple of questions A thousand thanks, Andrew, Narciso and all the others. The collection took me roughly 10 years to complete -and it's not finished - but the worst to deal with, during one year, was the website : it was a real headache ! www.formosatribal.com still needs many adjustments, but, anyway, the big work is done. I hope to see many of our friends from this ethnographic weapons forum come and visit it. By the way, Narciso, do you know if there is anything close to my website or my collection, on line, for the Philippines indigenous people, wether it is only concerning the weapons or the material culture in its whole ? For the other members here, any comments on the formosan tribal weapons exhibited on line ? Sorry if the pictures are not always good. Once more thank you all for your support. yuanzhumin/Nicolas

14th June 2007, 10:57 AM	#3
ligpo2001 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 16	Your website Hi Nicolas, Yes, there a couple of websites specializing in Philippine tribal stuff. For example: http://home.chello.no/~andy.anderson/Page2.html IMHO, it would be a challenge for anybody to come up with a good representative collection that would cover the entire peoples of the Philippines, as we have around 120+ cultural groups. A lifetime might not be enough to adequately study all these groups Thus, scholars tend to specialize, which I think is a wise route. Anyway, your site is cool indeed!

14th June 2007, 04:03 PM	#4
josh stout Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 407	Truly amazing work. I collect Chinese swords and these are completely new to me. The artifacts look more like what one would find in Borneo or New Guinea. The weapons have a heavy patina so it is hard to tell any details about the blades. Were they pattern welded? Where did the steel come from? Nice stuff, Josh Ps. You show something called a spoon that looks like a haut culture high healed shoe carved of wood. It made me picture Paris Hilton walking through the rain forest in spike heals