Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 08:31 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 08:25 AM
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Interesting, I have never seen these knives...
Interesting, I have never seen these knives associated with Zhuang people.
They are always linked with costal people from Guangdong, northern Vietnam.
Do you have any references or period photos if...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 08:04 AM
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Well info about eneps is rather vague. The one...
Well info about eneps is rather vague. The one you picture isn't very old. It's made probably made in central Thailand .. that area north if Bangkok around chai Nat, uthai Thai, lopburi, nakho swan...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 07:00 AM
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Hehe that's my eneps!.
Yeah first one...
Hehe that's my eneps!.
Yeah first one pictured by the op is an enep a typical type from central Thailand . Relatively recently made.
The other knife is probably from Central Luzon. Philippines...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 01:24 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 12:58 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2024, 12:47 AM
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Smoking clubs was common in Gallic cultures. It...
Smoking clubs was common in Gallic cultures. It ads patina to the club, keeps off any insects, makes it black and shiny and gives it a durable surface colour that doesn't wear of easily.
It's drys...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th April 2024, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 26
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yeah think you could say these style of knives...
yeah think you could say these style of knives are a product of the Manchus empire mixing different features of knives form various ethnic groups that made it up.
my presumption that they were...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th April 2024, 07:01 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th April 2024, 06:42 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 04:10 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 08:14 AM
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hey a bit late to this thread, these are not...
hey a bit late to this thread, these are not tibetan knvies.. they are chinese muslim Hui knives, a conglomerate of different groups of chinese people converted by persian and arab muslim traders...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th November 2023, 11:03 AM
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hi , yes it is a m1815 dutch military musket....
hi , yes it is a m1815 dutch military musket. ther ewas many makers of these, your gun is a conversion to percussion , this was done in the 1840s by the dutch government . the date of conversion will...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th November 2023, 08:21 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th November 2023, 12:07 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th November 2023, 11:41 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th August 2023, 06:38 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th August 2023, 06:37 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th August 2023, 06:29 PM
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I will try, yes, but in the last few years the...
I will try, yes, but in the last few years the restrictions on knives have became absurd in china, chiba post will not send knives domestically or internationally unless you have sone contact there.....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th August 2023, 03:54 AM
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Bonan knives and knife making
Hello fellow forumites.
I am now in Dehajia in Gansu province in China, it is the largest town near the main Bonan villages, here Bonan people are very common.
This is in the north of the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th August 2023, 02:39 AM
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The sword is chinese made. The manchus and...
The sword is chinese made. The manchus and mongols quickly began purchasing swords from whoever the conquered. Manchus swords and knives were of a mongolian type when they invaded and conquered the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd June 2023, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 27
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it is very large for a throwing knife but its...
it is very large for a throwing knife but its charachteristics and shape are quite correct for it to be a good throwing knife. can you show a view fomr the spine showing the blade taper?
i...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th February 2023, 02:32 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2023, 12:07 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th January 2023, 08:59 AM
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