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kronckew 20th October 2021 08:47 PM

Does look photoshopped. The guy on the right doesn't seem too happy about it either. Interesting swords, rather large...


Cool photo tho. 👍

Ren Ren 20th October 2021 09:29 PM

In Vietnamese they are called trường gươm 長劔, which means "long sword" or "long saber". By the time photography appeared, it was already an exclusively ceremonial weapon. In temples and shrines, it was often kept in the form of wooden models covered with multi-colored varnish.
Oval wicker shields are even more interesting and rare in my opinion.

dat_man 29th November 2021 03:44 PM

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Few photos where you can see omani zanzibari nimcha

TVV 1st December 2021 11:51 PM

Thank you for these images dat_man. The big photo on the bottom is especially intriguing. It depicts a man of high status with a nice shamshir seated on a fancy chair/throne. The people on his sides have nimcha hilted swords, and the two closest ones appear to have the ivory and gold hilt variety. It is similar to a photo in Hales showing a Comoros vizier with a shamshir and his bodyguards with nimchas. Pradines has a theory that the shamshir in East Africa was a status symbol, reserved only for very high ranking people.

The second row of standing men gets more eclectic when it comes to sidearms with a long saif, a crude shamshir hilted sword and a Western style sabre.

SanibelSwassa 3rd December 2021 09:53 AM

Moro photo’s that I didn’t see posted
 
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Just few additional examples from the archives of Moro peoples with their traditional weapons. Enjoy!

Martin Lubojacky 9th March 2022 11:46 PM

Habr Awwal warriors – one of the tribes of the Issaq clan, Somalis
 
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Photo by Alexandre Marchand (from the book "African Train"),
around Dire Dawa (Ethiopia) 1911 – 1913

kino 6th May 2022 01:55 PM

Kampilan
 
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Kampilan bearer of Dato Mastura, Cotabato. Peabody Museum.

ausjulius 11th May 2022 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveA (Post 136934)
Dha Myaung sword, Burma
Source: http://bit.ly/HzDqpd

not burma.. its taiwanese aborigines..

Norman McCormick 13th May 2022 07:47 PM

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Mongolian Archers first half 20thC.

Rich 13th May 2022 09:43 PM

Neat. Bet those guys could shot the eye out a bug from 70 yards.
Curious, what's the sword the guy on the right in the first pic is carrying?

cyten 16th May 2022 01:34 PM

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Men from Trabzon armed with Yataghans, ball butt flintlock pistols, Shishane with strange shoulder holsters, and Russian Berdan No.1

cyten 23rd June 2022 04:28 PM

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Shishane, Boyliya, Caucasian Blades

gp 23rd June 2022 11:27 PM

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Lavian Riflemen, AKA "strelniki"

Part of the Russian Imperial Army, in WW I about 30.000 men around 1917
Some later joined the Bolshevik revolution and hence its army
The majority remained in Latvia to protect the country due to an internal strugle and instability,
caused by 3 governments fighting for control ( German, Sovjet and Latvian) untill Latvia's independance 1920/22

mahratt 24th June 2022 07:29 AM

Tajik hunters with matchlock guns
 
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Hunters from kishlak (village) of Pai-Mazar. Central Asia. Tajikistan (Tajik SSR). 1932. (Hunters have old matchlock guns).

SidJ 24th June 2022 03:21 PM

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Warlpiri family, Australia, 1920s. I love this image. The physique of that warrior is impressive.

cyten 11th July 2022 01:02 AM

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Albanian with Turkish Shishane

gp 12th July 2022 09:50 PM

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Bosnian gent around 1890-1900

gp 12th July 2022 10:18 PM

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a few more postcards dated 1910-1920

gp 13th July 2022 08:27 PM

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another Bosnian man and a print from a monthly paper showing the Bosnisch-Herzegowinsche Infanterie Regiment marching in a Bosnian town ( either Mostar or Sarajevo)

mahratt 13th July 2022 09:39 PM

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Officers Turkmen (Tekin) cavalry regiment (subdivision army Russian Empire) with traditional Turkmen weapons: shamshirs and kards

gp 13th July 2022 11:11 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mahratt (Post 273408)
Officers Turkmen (Tekin) cavalry regiment (subdivision army Russian Empire) with traditional Turkmen weapons: shamshirs and kards

this kard looks beautiful to me , more than interesting ;
what kind of kard would it be? from which country / origin ?

mahratt 14th July 2022 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by gp (Post 273411)
this kard looks beautiful to me , more than interesting ;
what kind of kard would it be? from which country / origin ?


This is a Turkmen Kard knife from Central Asia. Turkmen tribes lived in the 19th - early 20th centuries on the territory and on the border of the Khiva Khanate.

gp 19th July 2022 10:33 PM

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Thank you very much for adding the picture ; these look amazing !☼

Hope to own one of these someday .....:)

would these kards perhaps be the same as the one by Islam Khodja or would his be another / different one ?

gp 5th August 2022 09:04 PM

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Aga aus Sarajevo im Waffenschmuck:
as displayed in the Landesmuseum, Sarajevo, circa 1899.
Source: Historical Archive of Sarajevo, Photograph Archive, Inv. No. 1276

Dignitaries in Sarajevo, circa 1898. Note the weapons inserted in the sash
of the standing nobelman (back row, on the right).
Source: Historical Archive of Sarajevo, Photograph Archive, Inv. No. 1329.

gp 4th September 2022 11:02 PM

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some more Caucassian pics

Tatyana Dianova 5th September 2022 08:24 AM

The first picture is not from Caucasus, but from Ukraine.
It is signed:
"Yuhym Bozhko, Otaman of the second infantry division of the Zaporozhian Sich, Year 1919"
Otaman is a military commander of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
An interesting photo.

Ren Ren 5th September 2022 01:37 PM

This photo is especially interesting given the fact that the Zaporozhian Sich was liquidated in 1775.

Will M 5th September 2022 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by gp (Post 272916)
Lavian Riflemen, AKA "strelniki"

Part of the Russian Imperial Army, in WW I about 30.000 men around 1917
Some later joined the Bolshevik revolution and hence its army
The majority remained in Latvia to protect the country due to an internal strugle and instability,
caused by 3 governments fighting for control ( German, Sovjet and Latvian) untill Latvia's independance 1920/22

That's a wonderful photo of Russian troops with the Winchester 1895 pattern musket in 7.62x54.

gp 5th September 2022 06:30 PM

Thank you both for the additional info. So 1775, perhaps he might have been also an inspiration for the character of Taras Bulba (like for instance Okhrim Makukha)

gp 5th September 2022 06:33 PM



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