what were the working blades of India?

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Originally Posted by Henk

Hi Fernando,

My socket is not an extension of the blade but attached to the blade and finished as was it an extension of the blade. But the weldings are vissible. It is more the similarity with the handle.
The blade looks more like an aruval.

I'm still wondering if mine is an Indian or Nepalese piece after all?

Ive never seen such a peace before Henk, it blade smithing & bolster could be Nepalese workmanship to my eye, but the rounded handle butt doesnt seem Nepali to my eye.

India perhaps? I dont know.

Originally Posted by Tatyana Dianova

Presumably the pair of rice sickles from Nepal:

They look like sickles from Nepal to me Tatyana, I saw a women cut long grass with them as well to feed buffalo while there. I think sickles like kukri have many uses as well as rice cutting. I recall that they call them Hansiya.

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Originally Posted by fernando

I hope that encouraging such procedure will not lead us to other grounds, like starting to post in the open the type of explicit images that are hidden in the link, which would not be the vocation of this forum ... in my humble perspective .
Study and investigation of weapons, yes; that would be what the forum is about. Not (necessarily) the culture of weapons in the theatre of crude action, other than in an unfrequent contextual support.
Of course i might be wrong, but this is the way i feel it and i had to express it.
Fernando

I must point out Fernando that the picutres in the link were not "hidden" as you say.

I gave warning of contents within the link. Also belive me there were photos I choose not to post of wounded & clearly distresed animals.

I too do not want this or for that matter other forums I freqent to be forums of gore either.

I could have cropped the photos I posted here to just show the tools/weapons in them , but somehow that looses so much context when it comes to these enthnographic weapons.

I am sorry if my warning with the link wasnt explicit enough & you saw something you would rather not, that certanly wasnt my intention.

I thought about what I posted on each forum & gratuitous gore wasnt my intention.

I leave The Animal rights societys in Nepal & India to have the goryist photos... It served thier cause. Mine was to feature ethnographic weaponary in its cultural context.

Appologies if it offended anyone. It certanly wasnt my intention.

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