Ethnographic Weapons [Archive] - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

Kukri vintage (6 replies)
New Purchase: A tumbok lada (7 replies)
Maluku parang? (4 replies)
Saif, Moroccan saif, sife, nimcha, nimsha (11 replies)
Classic Talibon Hilt w/Atypical Blade (7 replies)
Maasai Spear, tourist souvenir or real deal? (11 replies)
Translation on rencong scabbard (4 replies)
Toxic preservatives on old weapons? (5 replies)
Another atypical kris (8 replies)
New Treasures on OBJET: Central Asian Swords Now Featured! (0 replies)
Chinese or Philippines short saber? (2 replies)
sangi (3 replies)
Tuareg short dagger (4 replies)
Short sword - from where? when? (0 replies)
Japanese? Chinese? Character Translation Requested (6 replies)
Cut down tulwar (1 replies)
Antique small kastane sword, before after (4 replies)
Tuareg club (11 replies)
Moro kampilan (?) Spanish American war era (17 replies)
Hello Old Friends (5 replies)
The Cut Throat World --- (0 replies)
Khanda (Firangi) Sword (6 replies)
South Seas club? (13 replies)
A koummya- and contexts (44 replies)
Cikeruh/Tjikeroeh golok, Javanese translation help? (3 replies)
Persian hilt identification (3 replies)
Jambiya thouma translation wanted (1 replies)
Pedang Lurus (5 replies)
Kerambit (1 replies)
A Sulawesi sword for discussion (6 replies)
spears/harpoons/javelins (4 replies)
Input on this recent acquisition - Luzon? Age? (3 replies)
Hoping for a translation from Hindi (3 replies)
Small sharp and massive sword, horn of Africa ?? (7 replies)
Frontier cuirass c. 1720 believed Pueblo Indian in Spanish Style (30 replies)
Unique swords with "scimitar" vibe (0 replies)
Wooden Club (6 replies)
Katar for coments and thoughts (3 replies)
Hill tribe sword (5 replies)
Dagger South Sudan (8 replies)
Vintage Ilocano knife (2 replies)
Working Moroccan Nimcha with Interesting Script (2 replies)
Seeking information for a large beautiful (Qama?) sword. (8 replies)
New sheath to my bolo (4 replies)
An interesting knife from the Southeast Asian peninsula (5 replies)
Large Naga dao (5 replies)
Arrows (and a bow) (3 replies)
Zheng Yi Sao Pirate Sword (17 replies)
Thick knife frome Bali/Lombok (40 replies)
And now, for something DIFFERENT ….. (from me, anyway) ;) (3 replies)
Narrow Maasai swords (3 replies)
Iron hilt of talwar and piso pedang (11 replies)
new yataghan in my collection (5 replies)
I say it's Filipino my friend insists it's African... (6 replies)
Another straight machete of uncertain origin (8 replies)
Tuareg allar(h) old spear (9 replies)
Where did the practice of placing small stones in pulwar hilts originate? (5 replies)
Small Fang sword (7 replies)
Unusual metal handle barong (4 replies)
Ottoman silver shamshir sword (10 replies)
Ottoman pala traslation please (2 replies)
Some swords from Indonesia (17 replies)
Aceh rencong and siwaih (13 replies)
Sangi Bagobo (3 replies)
Filipino long sword info requested (7 replies)
Opinions about book Mexican Swords (3 replies)
Sword from Angola. Chokwe, Salampasu? (25 replies)
Tulwar bought on Sunday, 09.02.25 (3 replies)
Pesh Kabz, Choora or Afghan Knife. (2 replies)
A new Nimcha for comment (16 replies)
My first Corvo (6 replies)
Daily dha (4 replies)
Budiak re-shafted (5 replies)
Did Safavid/Qajar Persia have the largest sword making industry in Asia? (2 replies)
Is this Jezail authentic? (5 replies)
Two small Hmong utility daggers (2 replies)
Please help ID curved short sword. Possibly Indian? (3 replies)
Koummya for comment (3 replies)
Japanese short sword (3 replies)
My new spear from Philippines (9 replies)
How unique are the edged weapons of Afghanistan in comparison to their neighbors? (5 replies)
A new resource and database dedicated to Oriental arms and armour. (0 replies)
Unusual Albacete knife (8 replies)
“Might and Magnificence” exhibition catalogue (8 replies)
Takouba with a 16th century blade? (11 replies)
Lombok pedang cagak or sundrik lombok (7 replies)
Second dha silver handle (14 replies)
Saif? Szabla?? What have I got? (2 replies)
Sulawesi penai or other klewang(?) (6 replies)
A Pedang for ID (11 replies)
Help with an unknown knife (4 replies)
Silver thouma jambiya again. (7 replies)
Barong surprise! (8 replies)
Persian knife (14 replies)
African Sword? (10 replies)
An afghan jezail or north african rifle? (14 replies)
Another spear (0 replies)
African (?) spear for ID. (2 replies)
Help with origin of knive (5 replies)
Pesh Kabz (5 replies)
English shotgun (8 replies)
A Sword (10 replies)
Haussa (?) takouba (3 replies)
lovely kris info (4 replies)
Simple dha (22 replies)
What should I make next? (3 replies)
Mentawai bow, arrows and quiver. (10 replies)
Indonesian small sword for I.D. (12 replies)
A Spearhead for Comments (5 replies)
Topographic pattern on kris (13 replies)
Silver thouma jambiya (11 replies)
How common are crudely cut and imprecise fullers on Chinese swords? (4 replies)
Lumad (?) adaptation of a Malay sundang (1 replies)
Sharing another SE Asian tribal crossbow (3 replies)
New Central African knife, cleaning/maintenance advice? (2 replies)
Old Spanish (?) blade in Visayan dress (3 replies)
Pamor pedang (6 replies)
Another "Berber Like Sword." (11 replies)
Malay Sundang for comment (21 replies)
African Spear (ex coll. shakethetrees) (0 replies)
ID on this shamshir (2 replies)
A bonan axe (1 replies)
Bonan belt knife (0 replies)
Polearm (ex coll. shakethetrees) (0 replies)
Tibetan dog "stick" pocket flail (10 replies)
Curious Indonesia hooked knife (2 replies)
Two Spears (ex coll. shakethetrees) (5 replies)
African Quiver and Arrows (ex coll. shakethetrees) (2 replies)
Moro kris (11 replies)
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! (5 replies)
19th C Kudi trantang/tranchang (6 replies)
Malay kris sundang (7 replies)
new bichaq (2 replies)
Borneo parang with file blade (4 replies)
Malay Jungle knife? (1 replies)
Restoration of a Sulawesi alameng (28 replies)
Indonesian spears and blowdarts (22 replies)
Small golok for ID (4 replies)
Luzon or Panay? (24 replies)
Presumed Philippine? (12 replies)
Interesting takouba (5 replies)
Information required for this sword (6 replies)
Are these Dao Vietnamese or Chinese (0 replies)
Sri Lankan Patisthanaya (4 replies)
A strange Afghan Shamshir I discovered, could this be a replica or authentic? (2 replies)
Yataghans and more… (2 replies)
new yataghan in my collection (11 replies)
Early Yataghan for Comments and Discussion (26 replies)
Bagobo (?) man's working knife (6 replies)
Older takouba (7 replies)
Add on to the sewar collection (16 replies)
dagger koummya ? (6 replies)
Old telek arm dagger (4 replies)
Malay Sundang Keris (8 replies)
African saber of unknown origin (4 replies)
Dimas New Book (3 replies)
A Nondescript African Knife for Comments (1 replies)
2 in 13 years. (1 replies)
Balkan knife (3 replies)
The Sword of Kanta, a Nimcha and Some Clues as to the Origins of Both (9 replies)
Hello to everyone...Been absent for.....too long (7 replies)
SE Asian knife ID (14 replies)
Whats this? Persian? (4 replies)
As a dagger mounted tombak but from where? (12 replies)
Small cretan?? yataghan dagger translation please (3 replies)
Little knife for identification (2 replies)
Moro keris/kalis ID (26 replies)
Another old gunong for my collection (3 replies)
African knife figural West Africa (12 replies)
Achenese 'Roedoïh' & 'Tjot Jang' / silver & suasa (9 replies)
Horn hilted Yataghan, Is it Arabic or gibberish? (5 replies)
Mediterranean/Corsican knife for comments (4 replies)
A few koummya's (6 replies)
Odd kampilan (12 replies)
Islamic and Oriental arms and armour (Robert Hales) book help (2 replies)
Shula S'boula/Jiboula (2 replies)
Ottoman Yataghan - Gold Inscription Translation? (15 replies)
Odd Navaja For Comment (10 replies)
Tibetan Kora? (8 replies)
Info on Luzon sword (3 replies)
Hooded katar or pata with a backsword blade (4 replies)
Mentawai shield kurabit for sharing (2 replies)
West African? spear (2 replies)
Ethiopian ''dhal'' shield ?? (5 replies)
Tunisian dagger ? European style ... (9 replies)
Sharing a couple of unique and rare India pieces. (0 replies)
African knife Identification needed (4 replies)
Ifugao knife (4 replies)
Timor sword questions (3 replies)
Greek/Turkish kindjal translation request (2 replies)
Philippines bolo knifes? (11 replies)
My Talibong collection (5 replies)
Solomon/PNG for want of better info (14 replies)
Help with the Moro Kris/Kalis/Sundang (26 replies)
Unusual Moro knife (4 replies)
Are these historical swords or tourist traps? (12 replies)
information please (3 replies)
Restoration of cartouche / gold inlay (1 replies)
Epoxy for restoration (4 replies)
unknown dagger (5 replies)
Sulu sword (4 replies)
Question about a symbol on Mandau (7 replies)
Sumatra sword , sikin parang (41 replies)
"Gold & Damascus Steel – The Ottoman Art of Bladesmithing" Exhibition (16 replies)
Help to translate Amharic (3 replies)
Sino-vietnamese fighting knife (7 replies)
Flyssa (5 replies)
Afghanistan matchlock musket (3 replies)
Curious massive knife or machete (8 replies)
Question about "scimitars" (4 replies)
VOC marked pedang (18 replies)
Nice Moro Kampillan (11 replies)
Cane knife. (4 replies)
Sharing Moro Kris data (14 replies)
Ceremonial Spear? Dayak? Batak? or ?____? (8 replies)
Dsashka (3 replies)
A "new" Luzon bolo enter the collection (21 replies)
Names of African Swords (27 replies)
Jade hilted khyber knife (12 replies)
Balkan / Ottoman pieces for discussion (1 replies)
Silver flintlock (4 replies)
Kindjal with Gurian-Adjarian type blade (4 replies)
Unusual Takouba or Something Else? (8 replies)
Talibong of unknown origin (7 replies)
Indian Dagger (possibly Mughal) for Comment (5 replies)
Two other Oceanian clubs (4 replies)
Australian aboriginal club (10 replies)
Omani khanjar with ivory handle (2 replies)
Bronze Spear, 3000 years old (2 replies)
Old Moro kris blade with Spanish(?) hilt (1 replies)
Wall plaque with philippines edged weapons (4 replies)
Origin of this Tombak (3 replies)
Japanese weapons (6 replies)
Two old Maguindanao kris--with some differences related to age (8 replies)
Moro Bugis Sewar (19 replies)
New here (5 replies)
Armor-piercing Cone from 770-220 BC (2 replies)
Seme (9 replies)
Pitchfork tip mezrak (0 replies)
Antique kalis for comment (21 replies)
Gile Jile or what have you. (5 replies)
Small bronze sword (0 replies)
Small Ottoman (?) iron buckler (1 replies)
Chinese Fish head Dao, very thick (0 replies)
Kris pommel attachment (6 replies)
Some old weapons I own for ID (5 replies)
Tulwar Hilted Shamshir (7 replies)
My first Bhutanese/Tibetan knife (3 replies)
All steel khanjar (4 replies)
Toradar Matchlock Markings Help (3 replies)