RAJPUTS WITH MUSKETS AND DHAL SHIELDS,RAJASTHAN,INDIA

[RAJAH OF KARURTALAH,PUNJAB-1857,INDIA

SIKHS WARRIORS/OFFICERS ,PUNJAB,INDIA

WAZARISTAN,NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVENCE

COORG MAN WITH KATHI AND MUSKET,KARNATAKA,INDIA

Nias island, Indonesia

More Nias warriors
 

Great photo.

Now I wonder what they were doing with that huge stone!

Here are a couple of other Nias warrior pictures. I apologize if they are duplicates.

B/r,

Dave A.

This stones are ceremonial, only the young men who are able to jump over such a stone can become a warrior. This ceremony is living still today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TtMN8nXTM

Regards,
Detlef

Thank you, Detlef!

Very interesting tradition!

Regards,
Serge

Photographs of Indian armor being worn are rare, I just found this example.

A NAWAB SAHEB WITH HIS ATTENDANTS

Tuaregs with a telek arm dagger clearly showing.

Series with Tuaregs in Paris in 1909.

Of course, this is the director's staging of the photographer. But were very expressive photos.

A native soldier in Italian service in Italian Somaliland, so probably from the 1930s. Note the small billao behind the ammo pouches.

Turkomans from Merv and Akhal-Teke.

Turkmens (Tekins).

I haven't gone through the entire thread to see if this was covered already, but this is identified as an Onna-Bugeish, a female warrior of the Japanese nobility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-bugeisha

Circassian

Pictures from a Circassian charity event, 1908.

I think these pics are the first I've seen of Tartar style swords outside of museum photos. Great pics!!

WONDERFUL Circassian photos with weapons!! Thank you for posting.
Rick

A nice photo by Mr T. Enami 南 信國 Enami Nobukuni during the Meiji period using original armour as props and almost certainly a Geiko as the model. Mr Enami took loads of pictures during this period, all of them useful as reference but not to be taken as literal representations of the Samurai Era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Enami
More useful as a source for Samurai is the Beato collection mainly photographed during the Late Edo, Bakumatsu, and Meiji period. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/muph004

Japanese archers

David, try these links, along with the studio models there are actual samurai photographs.


https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...i-photographs/

https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...-meiji-period/

Armenian Fedayeen
 

Where: Armenian Highlands
When: late 1800's, early 1900's.
Who: Armenian Fedayeen (Freedom Fighters).
Weapons visible: Xanchals, rifles, shashkas.

Here are some photos of notorious Armenian Fedayeen and Armenian soldiers of Russia's Caucasus Front during WWI.

Dr. Kaempfer's Album of Persian Costumes and Animals In 1683 Dr. Kaempfer joined the Swedish embassy to visit the Shah of Persia

Gurkha in leave dress circa 1930

Ottoman guards late 1800s to early 1900s, a type of honor or consular guard (kavas or cawas) in the middle east. The last image is of Joseph P. Khabbaz from around 1940, wearing the traditional uniform of chief cawas/kawas, standing under the US Consulate General emblem atop of the gate leading to the embassy where he has worked for 20 yrs.

Interesting to see in the last few posts that the swords are all worn or carried edge up. The suspension rings are sometimes aligned to the edge but often to the back as ''normal''. :shrug: I'm fairly new to this forum so apologies if I've picked up on something that has been discussed many times before.

I love the staffs, anyone got any information on them or does anyone have one ?
Roy

Interesting that the fellow to the far left in photo 4 is also carrying a Moroccan koummya.

I don't where this guy is coming from but I like the suma ramrod between the two pistols...

Actually I recently made this image, it was cropped and edited from the original. Below is the original image and the end result.

https://archive.org/details/lescostumespopul00osma
Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873. Ouvrage publié sous le patronage de la Commission impériale ottomane pour l'Exposition universelle de Vienne by Osman Hamdi Bey, 1842-1910; Launay, Marie de; Turkey. Commission impériale ottomane pour l'Exposition universelle de Vienne, 1873

A few more examples from the same book.

You are amazing! Thank you for sharing all this!

When edited down you can see some interesting weapons etc. I do not know if these are staged with props or not but there are axe, a large qama, war hammer, clubs/mace, shields including the only photos showing the small Ottoman bucklers that I know of, The book unfortuately is in French but there are regional descriptions including zeibek.

In the case of Ottoman shamsirs which I could see in natura - the suspension rings are so close each other, that the sabre always turn edge up when hung.

Estcrh, thank you very much for this photos. If it´s not secret - isn´t it consulate general in Istanbul ?

And as Kubur said - you are amaizing - thanks for the link to that costumes book !

Kaviroondo men
 

Photo with bigger shields:
Wakuasi warriors from Kavirondo, Western Kenya, probably end of 19th century

Photo with smaller shields:
Also warriors from Kavirondo, Western Kenya, 1910

I do not know, if both groups are Nilotic Kavirondo (that time also used name "Wakuasi"), or not (there are living Nilotic and Bantu Kavirondo in the same region). In any case, the change of the spearheads style and the change of the size of the shields is interesting. As far as the spearheads, I red somewhere, that the era of very long and narrow spearheads began when the export of steel rods to Africa started.