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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 9th August 2022, 02:19 AM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Ed thank you for this response which is in line...

Ed thank you for this response which is in line with the 'key' suggestion I had noted. The interesting variation in geometric combinations really does present a degree of plausibility to comparison...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th August 2022, 04:18 PM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Enigma mark...Tuareg into the kaskara realm

Ongoing,
So it seems we have established that the enigma mark was known in the period around WWI by the Tuareg, and it seems in the Air (Ayr) regions of that massif in Niger centered around Agadez. ...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 6th August 2022, 04:26 PM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
I think that may be a good resolution, that this...

I think that may be a good resolution, that this mark (enigma) might reflect as award or perhaps as you suggest, a level of achievement or status in a particular Tariqa in Sufi. That would explain...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 6th August 2022, 03:40 AM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Points well taken Ed, and I agree your suggestion...

Points well taken Ed, and I agree your suggestion of this Sufi order being a good possibility of being the source, especially with the notable commonality which would support its diffusion from...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2022, 10:01 PM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Cross of Agadez

To follow up on my idea regarding the 'cross of Agadez', in doing more looking into this, I found the following.
The 'cross of Agadez' is in effect an item of jewelry, primarily a pendant with...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2022, 07:03 PM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Catfish

In going through old notes etc. from what I realize now were from some years ago (where has the time gone?) I found another theory I had come up with but which seemed somewhat tenuous, despite the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2022, 04:06 PM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Thanks Ed, As you note, Briggs asserts (per...

Thanks Ed,
As you note, Briggs asserts (per Gaus '58) that the grouping of marks on the 'takouba' of the Tiounfara chief Adembar (XXb) are copied from those on the blade of the takouba of the chief...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2022, 09:26 AM
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Posted By Jim McDougall
Ed, thank you for this thread, and one of the...

Ed, thank you for this thread, and one of the greatest of the 'cold cases' on North African broadswords, the marking we enthusiasts of this field have dubbed 'the enigma'.

While it seems most of...
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