Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th August 2015, 02:05 AM
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Off-topic, but as I found with my reproduction...
Off-topic, but as I found with my reproduction bronze-age sword with the mushroom hilt, the disk forcing you to hold your wrist straight is an ancient design. Those old leaf-bladed bronze swords...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
28th July 2015, 01:20 AM
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I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the...
I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the "grandfather's ax" paradox (aka the Ship of Theseus paradox). If grandfather's ax has had it's handle changed three times and its head twice, is it still...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th July 2015, 04:28 AM
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Replies: 18
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I thought Amazon when I first saw it.
Then...
I thought Amazon when I first saw it.
Then I misinterpreted it as a baby paddle club, which is quite common in the South Pacific, as Vandoo noted. They seem to be the equivalent of a short...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th July 2015, 04:25 AM
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Forum: Swap Forum
28th May 2015, 02:20 AM
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sennit for sale
Hi All,
I just spent some time in Honolulu, and found that a bookstore/community center called Na Mea Hawai'i (http://www.nameahawaii.com/) carries supplies for native Hawaiian crafts, as well as...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th May 2015, 04:48 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th May 2015, 09:36 PM
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Views: 17,565
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th April 2015, 04:38 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st April 2015, 11:57 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th March 2015, 04:07 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th February 2015, 12:13 AM
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I'm currently rereading James C Scott's The Art...
I'm currently rereading James C Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed, which is a great history of "Upland Southeast Asia" and helps explain the origin of the great diversity of peoples in the area. ...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st February 2015, 04:17 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th January 2015, 11:22 PM
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Views: 11,357
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Forum: European Armoury
30th December 2014, 04:51 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th July 2014, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 39,320
I'm a bit troubled by this one. Hatchets and...
I'm a bit troubled by this one. Hatchets and tomahawks were a trade item from very early on (like 16th Century, IIRC), so I'm trying to get my head around how you get a stone head with brass tacks...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
14th July 2014, 02:52 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,117
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd December 2013, 01:06 AM
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Views: 7,898
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th November 2013, 04:11 AM
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Views: 12,322
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th October 2013, 02:34 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 13,051
Pineapple? Or Pandanus? I can't tell, but they...
Pineapple? Or Pandanus? I can't tell, but they have similar fruits, at least when it comes to engraving at this level of complexity. In any event, the only thing a pineapple would tell was that it...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th October 2013, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,573
A gentlemens' disagreement, perhaps? :D
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A gentlemens' disagreement, perhaps? :D
Actually, there is a good point here about human hair. We tend to uncritically use its presence as a guide to authenticity, but it wouldn't be at all hard...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th October 2013, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 13
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There are a lot of ways to make hair brittle...
There are a lot of ways to make hair brittle (it's worth asking a woman about this, as things as simple as sun, dyeing, and blowdrying make hair very brittle), and I've got some tiger shark teeth I...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th October 2013, 07:40 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th October 2013, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 9,131
It's more than WW2. Japan colonized Korea from...
It's more than WW2. Japan colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945, and Manchuria from 1932-1945. The Japanese police were quite active in these times, and their retreat in 1945 was rather precipitous. In...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th September 2013, 04:02 AM
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Views: 6,398
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st September 2013, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 8,362
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