Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[mahratt]

Originally Posted by gp

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]

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]

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]

some more Caucassian pics

[Tatyana Dianova]

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]

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

[gp]

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)