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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st September 2012, 07:47 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Thanks Gustav, for the pic. And I see that you've...

Thanks Gustav, for the pic. And I see that you've been talking about these objects (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12306) for quite some time now. Nice discussion!

But may I know...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st September 2012, 07:25 AM
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Just a quick one on one of Barry's posted pics...

Just a quick one on one of Barry's posted pics above ... I just found out that if you google the pic's filename (e.g., "ev01a monster kris.jpg" for that smallest pic), then it'll lead you...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 21st September 2012, 07:03 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
hello all. i stumbled upon this thread because...

hello all. i stumbled upon this thread because gustav posted a picture of these same blades on this other thread: 'a very old kris' (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?p=145455#post145455)....
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st September 2012, 06:16 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Thanks too, Michael. And yes, will surely...

Thanks too, Michael.

And yes, will surely post that new thread very soon ... the only problem is, the A Very Old Kris (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?p=145455#post145455) thread is...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th September 2012, 06:32 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
David, Barry, & Kai, thanks for all the comments....

David, Barry, & Kai, thanks for all the comments.

And to 'monkey' with the topic some more, earlier there was a comment on why is there only one such example of a proto-Philippine kris (i.e., the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th September 2012, 08:11 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Nice one! Definitely Luzon, as everybody has said.

Nice one! Definitely Luzon, as everybody has said.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th September 2012, 08:05 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Saw this thread just now. Wow, nice one...

Saw this thread just now.

Wow, nice one Michael! Skål! :)

I have yet to figure out whether there's a special name for these 'bat'-pommeled Visayan swords. And I'm also still finding out whether...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 7th September 2012, 12:08 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Gustav, Alan, & David, many thanks for the...

Gustav, Alan, & David, many thanks for the replies :)

I'm still traveling at the moment (in Europe), and I continue to sift through hundreds of pics I've taken and counting (all about edged...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2012, 07:28 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Amen!, Rick. Thanks. Jose, I can reassure...

Amen!, Rick. Thanks.

Jose, I can reassure you that I'm more handsome in real life :D ;)

Apolaki, most of them, if not all as I recall, allow picture taking. But if the photos refer to items...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2012, 12:00 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Maurice, thanks too! Dom, mon ami...

Maurice, thanks too!

Dom, mon ami extraordinaire! :) haha, thanks for those pics. And thanks for 'Part 2' which is a briefing about Arab weapons in your most beautiful house, including access to...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th August 2012, 12:27 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
What? :( But didn't you say this? :) ...

What? :(

But didn't you say this? :)
Incidentally, for somebody starting to study the archeology and history of the Javanese keris, what would be a good reference, if any? Thanks! PS - So who's...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th August 2012, 12:11 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
David, thanks again for the comments. I'm...

David, thanks again for the comments.

I'm presenting below a rehash of my earlier visuals. And this will enable me to outline more clearly my position. But lemme say at the outset that I'm not...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th August 2012, 09:23 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Gustav, thanks for the pics. Given said pics...

Gustav, thanks for the pics.

Given said pics posted by Gustav, then all the more I'm led to speculate that Ron's kris must have made by an Indonesian also, with the roundish tang and all ...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th August 2012, 09:16 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
here's another example (from steve) of a gunong...

here's another example (from steve) of a gunong where the 'bulb' is just starting to 'grow' ...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th August 2012, 08:07 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
The following are excerpts from the book...

The following are excerpts from the book Philippine Ancestral Gold (http://www.ayalamuseum.org/index.php?option=com_ayala_content&task=staticcontent&category=116&id=128), which deals mainly with...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th August 2012, 07:48 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Jose, thanks for the info. Would you or anybody...

Jose, thanks for the info. Would you or anybody have any idea as to which one is harder to make -- a square tang or round tang?

Ron, well you throw me so many curved balls and so I have to keep...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th August 2012, 06:50 PM
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Views: 187,056
Posted By migueldiaz
Hello Alan, many thanks for the comments. It's...

Hello Alan, many thanks for the comments. It's always a pleasure and an edification to read your commentary.

With regard to those two distinctive features of kerises and krises (encircled in the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th August 2012, 08:11 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
some more pics:

some more pics:
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th August 2012, 08:08 AM
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Posted By migueldiaz
it turns out that pitt rivers (museum) in oxford...

it turns out that pitt rivers (museum) in oxford has a very nice online database (http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases.html). here's some pics of phil. stuff that's in there:
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th August 2012, 12:14 PM
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Views: 28,252
Posted By migueldiaz
Dom, you are indeed super. Bless your heart! :) ...

Dom, you are indeed super. Bless your heart! :)

Nonoy, yes it will be a pleasure and a great privilege to welcome Dom to our shores. Hope he drops by soon.

Barry, sir thanks very much for those...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th August 2012, 07:21 PM
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Views: 187,056
Posted By migueldiaz
Thanks again for the critique. 'As iron sharpens...

Thanks again for the critique. 'As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.' :)

Actually all of those examples I posted have many many things in common:

1. all of them (except for a few...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th August 2012, 06:40 PM
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Views: 187,056
Posted By migueldiaz
David, yes, agreed. Not all kalis are kris. And...

David, yes, agreed. Not all kalis are kris. And just to clarify, all of the kalises I'm presenting here are of the pre-kris variety. And so I can even concede that the Bohol kalis is still a kalis,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th August 2012, 05:24 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
Jose, that Mandaya dagger to me is like a...

Jose, that Mandaya dagger to me is like a coelecanth, a living fossil! What would be the cross-sectional shape of the tang? Thanks.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th August 2012, 07:54 PM
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Posted By migueldiaz
then a hundred or two hundred years later (given...

then a hundred or two hundred years later (given that this specimen is estimated to be from the 10th to the 15th century a.d.), we find the bohol kalis with a square tang.

to recap, it appears...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th August 2012, 07:49 PM
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Views: 187,056
Posted By migueldiaz
this one has a circular hole where the tang...

this one has a circular hole where the tang passes.

to summarize, as far as these 10th to 13th century a.d. gold hilts are concerned, the vast majority would have inferred square or rectangular...
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