Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2005, 12:50 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th January 2005, 02:42 AM
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More Naga daos, etc.
6. Four daos, including two relatively rare spade-shaped examples (see cover of Julian Jacobs’ book for comparable example).
7. Unadorned daos common to several Naga groups.
8. Khasi sword...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th January 2005, 02:32 AM
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Naga daos in Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
1. Variety of unusual and obsolete (i.e., considered to be at time of collection) Naga daos. Note the form of the second from top resembles the two-handed Khasi sword. At lower left is an example...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th January 2005, 01:47 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th January 2005, 04:01 AM
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Some pre-1889 working dhas from Burma
In case anyone is interested. Not terribly high quality photo, I'm afraid; unfamiliar camera, dark museum, and they were mounted on a wall overhead in a stairway.
These are in the Pitt-Rivers...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd December 2004, 02:41 PM
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As luck would have it...
here's a comparable knife just auctioned on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2294782233&ssPageName=ADME:B:WN:US:1
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd December 2004, 07:38 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th December 2004, 03:38 PM
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Perhaps we might be hasty about assigning...
Perhaps we might be hasty about assigning different origins to dhas based on the relative projection of the tips--at least without looking at a very large sample and considering their age too.
The...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th December 2004, 11:36 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th December 2004, 03:39 PM
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The ring pommel and guard are suggestive of one...
The ring pommel and guard are suggestive of one type of Chinese dadao. Of course, the blade is not at all like the dadao. So at first glance, I am going to guess that this is a relatively recently...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd December 2004, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 11
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It looks like a knife or short sword of the...
It looks like a knife or short sword of the Baiwan (Paiwan in Wade-Giles) people of Taiwan, although it does share the open scabbard of the Lepcha ban from Sikkim and a resemblance to the...
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