Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th April 2019, 04:30 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th April 2019, 04:28 AM
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Shazam, nothing about the blade screams Visayan...
Shazam, nothing about the blade screams Visayan other than the scrabard and handle that they slapped on their, which is something they usually do with a lot of the better weapons they can get their...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th April 2019, 02:50 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th April 2019, 11:45 AM
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Isn't the general consensus that Filipino...
Isn't the general consensus that Filipino non-muslim metal smiths were incapable of making longer weapons such as the kampilan or the panabas,
which is why they were only used farmer tools such as...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th March 2019, 08:02 PM
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I sent a PM for the sources.
You mention...
I sent a PM for the sources.
You mention General Lukban but recent studies have shown that some of the famous battles that he "partook" in were actually a facade and that he was never behind some...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th March 2019, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 37
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If you look at some of the statistics of the...
If you look at some of the statistics of the amount of men the Filipinos lost to the Americans, you can see that the difference is by a couple of thousands. There's also little to no sources of how...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2019, 07:02 PM
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Replies: 37
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I think the assertion is right that Filipino...
I think the assertion is right that Filipino "steel" was faulty in comparison to their asian and moro counterparts. Moro weapons have always been compared to spanish, japanese and even other european...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th September 2017, 02:39 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th July 2017, 02:45 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th June 2017, 08:22 AM
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Igorot Panabas?
In the photo, the Igorot in the middle seems to have a Panabas shaped weapon standing right next to him.
I guess this kind of shows that the technology among the moros were really not different than...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th June 2017, 10:14 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd June 2017, 07:40 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd June 2017, 07:29 PM
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Hi Ian,
It is true, the angle could...
Hi Ian,
It is true, the angle could possible make the sword like bigger in length. However in regards to the kampilan above, it seems the specimen is still up to debate on whether it is a Visayan...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd June 2017, 06:54 AM
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non-moro kampilans?
Hello all, this question stemming off of the recent threads on the non-moro kris and the long sword kampilan which may or may not be a visayan in origin
threads: ...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2017, 08:07 PM
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Replies: 37
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comparison
You can see that the people in the pictures posted where head bans look nearly identical (excluding the tagalog) when comparing the warrior with the large sword who sports the same type of head ban....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2017, 09:55 AM
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Could be Bisaya in regards to the headband. ...
Could be Bisaya in regards to the headband.
Its been widely accepted in even wiki's that the picture is considered "visayan timawa/tumao" although no proof to state whether this really is visayan...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st March 2017, 04:21 AM
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Moro in Boxer codex?
Is it just me or is this actually a Moro or a muslim visayan as opposed to the non-islamic Visayans in the Philippines. Which would explain why he's carrying a long sword and why the womens head is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd February 2017, 07:18 PM
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Measurements?
Could you post the measurements of the blades from top to bottom
Thanks in advanced
- Brandon
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th February 2017, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 32
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I believe the Kampilan posted by Carlos however...
I believe the Kampilan posted by Carlos however is of Visayan origin. I am not sure if this is a tourist made one or a kampilan from a time before the coming of the Americans (or maybe even Spanish)...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd February 2017, 06:31 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th January 2017, 08:44 AM
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Ancient visayan kampilan?
This may be possible the very first visayan made kampilan that has surfaced. Assuming of course this was pre ww2/ww1.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th January 2017, 08:18 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th January 2017, 02:56 AM
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I believe the guan dao and other Chinese pole...
I believe the guan dao and other Chinese pole arms have a relatively small blade in comparison to the of a long sword such as the kampilan. The picture of the weapon seem to scale with the size of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th January 2017, 12:31 AM
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Now that I think about it, I've never seen a...
Now that I think about it, I've never seen a visayan timawa with a large sword like that before. Possibly this may be the Visayan kampilan that I'm looking for, although seems a lot different from...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd December 2016, 08:16 PM
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