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Always A shame to miss a wedding Rick.
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They look like sickles from Nepal to me Tatyana, I saw a women cut long grass with them as well to feed buffalo while there. I think sickles like kukri have many uses as well as rice cutting. I recall that they call them Hansiya. spiral Quote:
I gave warning of contents within the link. Also belive me there were photos I choose not to post of wounded & clearly distresed animals. I too do not want this or for that matter other forums I freqent to be forums of gore either. I could have cropped the photos I posted here to just show the tools/weapons in them , but somehow that looses so much context when it comes to these enthnographic weapons. I am sorry if my warning with the link wasnt explicit enough & you saw something you would rather not, that certanly wasnt my intention. I thought about what I posted on each forum & gratuitous gore wasnt my intention. I leave The Animal rights societys in Nepal & India to have the goryist photos... It served thier cause. Mine was to feature ethnographic weaponary in its cultural context. Appologies if it offended anyone. It certanly wasnt my intention. Spiral |
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You gave plenty of warning Spiral .
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ahhh I see Fernando thank you for the clarification, I guess the remote & long range internet communication & the differing use of lexicon or vocabulary allowed me to percieve the word "hidden" in its most literal & basic sense, as I couldnt see you facial expresions ,use of hands, the movement of your eyes & other body such language.
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[QUOTE=Rick]You gave plenty of warning Spiral . No worries . ![]() Cheers Rick, I certany tried! |
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Hi all
Just joined the forum as a collector of edge tools, not weapons, in order to be able to share knowledge with others. Any tool can be used as a weapon, either because of its nature, e.g. long handles slashers are similar to the bill of the english footsoldier of the Middle Ages, or because it is all they have available, e.g. the genocide in Rwanda wher the principal weapon was the machete. As this thread is on tools, rather than weapons, and as the differences are sometimes so negligable (hence many current European agricultural tools being sold in the USA as medieval weapons) it is not a dicergence from the topic of the forum, but a way of extending understanding. Edge tools of the world can be divided into several broad groups: Billhooks/machetes/cane knives/ parangs etc Sickles Long handled slashers Axes Knives Adzes These are very broad groups, and some tools will fall midway between two groups... My own passion is the humble billhook, the most versatile tool of the lot - vastly underated - and in the wrong hands a vicious and nasty weapon... For the best collection of images of ethnic tools/weapons have a look at the Dutch Museum of Ethnology at Leiden: http://www.rmv.nl/index.aspx?lang=en Search the database their for the hundreds of images in the collection |
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