Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th June 2011, 01:19 PM
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Sure, that's what I understood.
May be it's...
Sure, that's what I understood.
May be it's the last sentence of my post that bothered you. It was a long post and taken in the dynamic of writing, I may have not chosen the good words. So let's...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th June 2011, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 20
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Hello Varta and all,
That's the problem with...
Hello Varta and all,
That's the problem with the Pingpu: are we talking only about the plain tribes or also the sinicized aborigines ?
Depending on the definition, we will considere your knife,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th June 2011, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 20
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Hello Varta,
Can you share your sources,...
Hello Varta,
Can you share your sources, please ?
If I wrote somewhere that this kind of knives may have been Atayal, I was wrong. I definitely think it is Pingpu.
Anyway, I collected some...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd June 2011, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 20
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Hello all,
To Kukulza,
You pointed at the...
Hello all,
To Kukulza,
You pointed at the fact that the Saisiat have similar knives, except they are straight. In fact, despite similarities, the Saisiat are a very different ethnic group,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2011, 10:42 PM
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Replies: 20
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I also found this other Atayal/Seediq/Truku...
I also found this other Atayal/Seediq/Truku knife, more basic and in a little lesser shape (crack along the sheath). Because of the red color of the sheath (for protection against the evil spirits),...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2011, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 20
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Two Atayal knives from Taiwan/Formosa
Well, as a passionate collector of Taiwan aborigines art, I was lucky enough in the last months to be able to find few more Taiwan knives.
Nothing had came up for months, and then all of a sudden,...
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