Ethnographic weapons

[Tim Simmons]

I look a real mean roughty toughty down town with my terror weapon dog Rose on a chain.

[Norman McCormick]

Hi,
My guardians are Otto the Bold, 10 inches of unruly watchdog and hole digger to the gentry. Next is my 45mph Hell Hound, Sally, seen in the last picture apprehending a vicious burglar and all round bad guy, actually my son who must have had a trace of ice cream or somesuch on his chin.
Regards, Norman.

[Newsteel]

I can't help but keep looking at the size of the chain used.
That size can tug a boat!!! Andrew is right, that is bigger than I thought.

[A. G. Maisey]

I'll stick with me goldfish.

[Bill M]

Me pets hold me weapons.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=tsavo

Argh!

[Yannis]

Wow Bill, that was scary!

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by Yannis

Wow Bill, that was scary!

The Tsavo (means "slaughter") lions of Kenya are some of the worst maneaters.

Two lions like this killed and ate about 140 railroad workers trying to build a bridge through Kenya in the late 1800's. The story tells how they came at night and dragged workers sleeping by campfires out into the darkness.

It is very unusual for males to hunt, especially together. Usually it is the lionesses that hunt in prides.

The two almost maneless lions assumed mythical proportions, terrorizing workers and nearly stopped the building of the railroad bridge. They eluded traps and hunters, crept through man-made thorn barriers and seemed invincible.

Finally in 1898 Col Patterson shot one and then, three weeks later, the other one. He had rugs made of their skins. Finally these were donated to the Field Museum.

http://ezinearticles.com/?African-Li...savo&id=467243

My lion measures over nine feet from tip of nose to tip of tail. He was the last legally taken Tsavo lion (mid 1980's) in Africa before they became a protected species.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Bill Marsh

Me pets hold me weapons.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=tsavo

Argh!

Hi Bill,

The basket of my little doggie is near my collection. Till now, nobody was able to touch one without permission. :-)
When the day comes that will happen, I will consider to take also a hyena or even a lion like you have.

Kind regards,
Maurice

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Hi Bill,

The basket of my little doggie is near my collection. Till now, nobody was able to touch one without permission. :-)
When the day comes that will happen, I will consider to take also a hyena or even a lion like you have.

Kind regards,
Maurice

Maurice,

I'd rather face a stuffed lion than Denzel!

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Newsteel

I can't help but keep looking at the size of the chain used.
That size can tug a boat!!! Andrew is right, that is bigger than I thought.

And the jaws ? isn't it true that their jaws are the most powerfull around ?

[Rod Charters]

Here a few photo's from Harar, Ethiopia of the Hyena man feeding his "pet" hyena's from the mouth and me with my daughter on my shoulders feeding one of the Hyena's. I was nervous but my daughter only interested in posing for the camera.

Best Regards

Rod

[Mark]

Cool! When were you in Harar? I lived in Ethiopia in the early '80s, and it was closed to foreigners at the time. The Harar hyenas look smaller than the Nigerian ones. They must be a different sub-species.

Originally Posted by Rod Charters

Here a few photo's from Harar, Ethiopia of the Hyena man feeding his "pet" hyena's from the mouth and me with my daughter on my shoulders feeding one of the Hyena's. I was nervous but my daughter only interested in posing for the camera.

Best Regards

Rod

[Gavin Nugent]

I have been reading further about the Hyena men of Africa and recently found this link...

The link below makes for some very interesting reading.

http://www.michaelstevenson.com/cont...ria_index2.htm

Gav