Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st October 2015, 11:25 PM
|
|
Replies: 20
Views: 23,497
pictures
Over a year and still no picture? I just comitted to a Timor sword on Oriental Arms.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd October 2015, 07:30 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 8,604
Mandau in scientific journal
The carving on my Dayak Mandau inspired me to research betel nut. Our results were published this week. This is the journal article with a picture of the sword.
...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th October 2015, 10:08 PM
|
|
Replies: 52
Views: 60,936
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th September 2015, 10:55 PM
|
|
Replies: 16
Views: 17,967
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd August 2015, 03:46 AM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 7,280
Big boxer swords
I purchased this large Chinese sword from Oriental Arms. The blade is 30 inches long. I wonder if it might be from the era of the Taiping Rebellion or possibly the later Boxer rebellion. One...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th July 2015, 03:15 PM
|
|
Replies: 29
Views: 29,382
ABE vs Amazon
Copies are available from ABE books for less than $100. Amazon was $300
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th June 2015, 11:58 PM
|
|
Replies: 1
Views: 5,895
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th June 2015, 10:00 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 9,550
Sold out!
I looked into these swords again today. The stock they had three years ago has been sold out.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st June 2015, 01:13 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 5,864
Visayan?
I recently acquired this from Oriental Arms. Artzi makes a qualified attribution to the Visayan. Comments, concurrence, alternative opinions?
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st May 2015, 12:25 AM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 15,852
Little sister
I have had this smaller one in nicer condition for a while.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th May 2015, 11:44 PM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 15,852
Burmese Dah?
I picked this very simple piece up today for a very modest price. Best guesses on origin?
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th May 2015, 05:53 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 5,975
date
Is it spurious?
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th May 2015, 02:23 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 5,975
colleague suggests:
It says:
God is the greatest
The name of the owner ( which i cannot recognize)
Made in 1961 (not 71)
Place Oman
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th May 2015, 09:47 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 5,975
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd April 2015, 01:12 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 11,698
scabbard
The scabbard is even more similar aside from there being one ring instead of two. It must have been made off the same pattern.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
20th April 2015, 09:01 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 6,024
An Indian friend reports
This writing is in 'Gujarati' language spoken in the northwest region of India.
The first two letters can be the name of the shop or the name of the person who made it. The third word is a little...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
18th April 2015, 10:47 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 6,024
book
I have ordered a copy of the book. What about the inscription?
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
16th April 2015, 02:45 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 6,024
Betel nut inscription
I am working on my article about the betel nut drug activity and in fact discovered something else new. To augment the story I acquired these three cutters. Can anyone please help with the...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th April 2015, 04:07 PM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 10,995
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th April 2015, 02:25 PM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 10,995
Tribal traditions amongst the Islamic Moro
The Kampilan came from Oriental Arms. It was in Artzi’s private collection for a number of years. He bought it in Manila in the late 70's. His attribution was to “the Sea Dayaks of Borneo (or)...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd April 2015, 07:19 PM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 10,995
Help placing kampilan please
I have been going through some of the nearly 300 threads that were a hit with the search term kampilan. The mind boggles. What a diversity of pieces and discussion of subtle features. I posted one...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd April 2015, 08:12 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 18,170
Taiwan sword
Artzi had a nice (albeit expensive) one that has just been sold.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd April 2015, 03:09 AM
|
|
Replies: 10
Views: 11,476
Mandau carving
My dream is to see that image on the cover of Science magazine.
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st March 2015, 01:33 PM
|
|
Replies: 10
Views: 11,476
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2015, 09:03 PM
|
|
Replies: 10
Views: 11,476
Arecoline activity
Our experiments confirm that it has significant activity on an important subtype of human nicotine receptor, but probably not the subtypes most likely associated with nicotine addiction.
|
