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North West african axe: Info from vendor
================================= Country: Morocco Weapon Type: Axe Year of Manufacture: 1900 Overall Length: 34.5 cm Barrel/ blade length: 27.3 cm A beautiful tomahawk hand-carved by an artist in Morocco in the 20's the handle is made of quality hornbeam wood, the blade is made of carbon steel with an engraving of a tree with leaves ================================= Coming my way from Israel. I am awaiting being gouged by customs. Thought it looked cool. not sure if the head is on the right way ![]() Have seen them both ways.... Couldn't find any ref. by searching the forum (or google). |
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I view it better; in the inverted position
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As I suspected, the bit of the haft near the socket looks like it had been slid off and repositioned. It coming from Israel made me suspicious of the Maroc connection too.
The question now is where was it from? I suspect the bird is NOT one of Odin's Ravens, and the blade foliage decor is NOT Yggdrasil ![]() |
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Hi,
No idea, but just wanted to remark that decoration looks like tree of life, which is definitely an Islamic symbol, found on weapons, carpets and many other things. Eytan |
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I think Fernando’s inversion of the axe head is correct.
The butts of Indian axes very often carried an element representing some kind of living creature, just like here IMHO it is from India. |
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Thanks, that seems logical...
Googled 'Indian axe' - that was useless as google thinks native Americans came from the Indian sub continent. Indo-persian worked better, found a couple with very much the same bird, but symmetrically bladed axes, they were listed as mughal. Using mughal axe if found two heads very much like mine. Without hafts & no origin listed. Finally found a very close head shown in fernando's alignment, but with a round haft and socket. It was listed with a somewhat less than useful description as "Old Indo Persian Mughal Islamic Scripts Ottoman Turkish Arab Talismanic War Axe". I think I'll refer to it as 'Mughal Indian'. Last edited by kronckew; 19th November 2018 at 11:51 AM. |
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