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Hi Guys,What do you make of this is it Tsonga ? do you think they are weapons or a badge of rank ?
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: What is still UK
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Very, very nice. I have an axe with a very similar shape blade but bronze. This example is perfect
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast USA
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Wait a second I am wiping the drool off my key board
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Sydney Australia
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Beautiful.
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Thanks guys i couldnt believe it when i saw it ,only seen them in books.
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#6 |
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Location: Sydney Australia
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Strictly speaking, there is no traditional Tsonga culture to speak of.
Tsonga is the word describing ethnic Shangaan people who have migrated from Mozambique to South Africa. It is word that fits more ethnic Shangaan working in Johannesburg's gold mines. Many of these have in the last few decades settled permenantly in South Africa, but they do not have a tradition or identity as Tsonga that goes back for any real length of time. I have no reason to think this axe isn't South African or, for that matter, Zulu. But if it is Tsonga, then it may be more correct to describe it as Shangaan and from Mozambique not South Africa. |
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