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Flavio · 14th April 2005, 11:12 PM

Hi Lew, I think that what you say is ok. The age of undecoreted ikula is old like the ones with an inlaid handle.
Maybe, but this is a big interrogative point, the ikulas with copper and brass inlaid are older.
Here in Italy i see in a museum (Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum of "Luigi Pigorini" in Rome) two ikulas dated to the middle '800 with copper and brass inlaid. Maybe the ikula with zinc or aluminum inlaid are recent.
I haven't sure news if the weapons were handed down as family heirlooms, but i think that it could be possible. Among the Papua (New Guinea) or the Maori, in the early 1900, the stone axe were passed from father to son as a great simbol of power.

14th April 2005, 11:12 PM	#5
Flavio Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Italia Posts: 1,243	Hi Lew, I think that what you say is ok. The age of undecoreted ikula is old like the ones with an inlaid handle. Maybe, but this is a big interrogative point, the ikulas with copper and brass inlaid are older. Here in Italy i see in a museum (Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum of "Luigi Pigorini" in Rome) two ikulas dated to the middle '800 with copper and brass inlaid. Maybe the ikula with zinc or aluminum inlaid are recent. I haven't sure news if the weapons were handed down as family heirlooms, but i think that it could be possible. Among the Papua (New Guinea) or the Maori, in the early 1900, the stone axe were passed from father to son as a great simbol of power.