![]() |
![]() |
#1 |
Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: France
Posts: 472
|
![]()
Ngandu / Saka
Congo 85 cm wood 1920 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 |
Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Paris (FR*) Cairo (EG)
Posts: 1,142
|
![]()
Bonsoir Luc
fighting stick, was lethal weapons or just for fight simulation ? religious purpose ? in case of violent engagements, these wooden weapons were breaking quickly, right ? I'm curious to know the real destination of these weapons, ceremonial or war ? thanks per anticipation to teach an uneducated ![]() à + Dom |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 |
Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Posts: 301
|
![]()
Miyamoto Musashi, one of the most famous swordsmen in Japan, liked to use the bo-ken, the wooden sword, and used it successfully in one of his most famous duels.
In the Rwanda genocide, the predominant weapon was a wooden club. In Elizabethan England, one of the most violent times and places in the world, more people were killed with a cudgel, a plain old piece of wood, than with any other weapon. The Maoris of New Zealand used a wooden weapon called the taiaha, and successfully defeated British troops using rifle and bayonet in hand-to-hand combat. God forbid I should have to go into combat against a swordsman, (or against anybody, for that matter) but I'll take a 6 foot hardwood staff over the sword any day. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: France
Posts: 472
|
![]()
These stick are described as " non-lethal " weapons.
But I don't want to try... |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: What is still UK
Posts: 5,772
|
![]()
Looks really nice. Any chance of another, view edge on. What wieght is it. It looks a hard wood. Much wood work from the Congo, on swords and knives seems to me to be often rather soft woods. A really good whack across the temple/eye socket would mean the next hit would be lethal.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|
|