Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:20 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 70,654
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:19 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 70,654
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:18 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:17 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:16 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:15 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2024, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 70,654
Exceptional Philippine weapons auctioned in Spain
Greetings, just thought of sharing a collection of pictures I downloaded from the Fernando Duran auction last June 2023. Exceptional Philippine archipelago blades were arrayed in several "panoplia"...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th July 2024, 03:09 PM
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Replies: 4
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The first video is legit. Mr Ibrahim is a good...
The first video is legit. Mr Ibrahim is a good friend of mine, he comes from a lineage of Moro Fighting Arts (MFA) practitioners. He is Sama Tausug.
The second video is...an attempt by a Filipino...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd July 2024, 08:45 AM
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Replies: 20
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Nobility in general yup- upper strata of Moro...
Nobility in general yup- upper strata of Moro society, which includes the "job descriptions" I previously mentioned, not limited to royalty or military. It's important to distinguish between the two...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2024, 04:46 PM
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Replies: 20
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That's right sir :) some of these highly...
That's right sir :) some of these highly aesthetic blades were also gifted to foreign rulers and dignitaries, or traveled far and wide as dowries for transcontinental marriages. That would account...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2024, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 20
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th June 2024, 02:24 AM
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Replies: 37
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th June 2024, 03:44 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th June 2024, 03:42 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2024, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2024, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 8
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I was told that the earliest plaques were...
I was told that the earliest plaques were actually made in Baguio (and not Mindanao), that's why a lot of profiles are inaccurate / mislabeled / fantasy made. Eventually though, other areas...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th April 2024, 03:27 PM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th April 2024, 04:22 AM
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Replies: 9
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Thanks for the kind words Detlef and Kai!
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Thanks for the kind words Detlef and Kai!
Detlef, I tried fitting several "extra" asang-asang I have here, but they're all too slim for the blade- the gangya on this one is unnaturally thick. So...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th April 2024, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 9
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Moro kris for comment
Greetings everyone:
I'm lucky to have chanced upon this piece- so far the longest twistcore Moro kris I've encountered (23in blade length, 28in overall), also the heaviest (0.75kg). It's also a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd March 2024, 04:47 AM
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Replies: 11
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Halloo Leif,
It might interest you that the...
Halloo Leif,
It might interest you that the longest one in that triad may either be from Laguna OR Rizal. Pre-1900, Laguna and Rizal had fuzzy borders, hence the "OR" disclaimer.
Also, my...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th February 2024, 02:43 PM
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Halloo Leif. More than two decades ago, a...
Halloo Leif. More than two decades ago, a previous forum member was taught by a Waray elder who used that term for extinct, crescent-shaped Waray battle blades. I use the term "extinct" to refer that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th February 2024, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th February 2024, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 206,121
Hello! Just an update on this thread-
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Hello! Just an update on this thread-
"Dahong bolo" and "dahong buho" refer to different kinds of bamboo (kawayan) cultivated by Tagalog farmers, hence they also refer to different blade...
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