Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th May 2024, 11:56 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th May 2024, 11:43 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th May 2024, 01:05 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th May 2024, 12:55 PM
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Wayne, I think that kino is showing us a...
Wayne, I think that kino is showing us a ginunting-like sword with a long "swedge" along the back edge that may or may not be sharpened. The primary cutting edge is not always curved in my experience.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th May 2024, 12:50 AM
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Replies: 20
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Rob,
I think you have hit on a subject that...
Rob,
I think you have hit on a subject that we all think we know about but lacks definition. What is meant by a "tourist"item? You have emphasised that these are low quality items produced in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th May 2024, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 22
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Alan,
The collective experience expressed...
Alan,
The collective experience expressed here is drawing a blank to your very precise question. I assume there is no blade to go with this hilt. Has the hilt ever been used? If not, then perhaps...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th May 2024, 12:06 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,143
Hello Alan,
You have presented a real test....
Hello Alan,
You have presented a real test. Like most who have posted already, I don't recognize this pommel. However, I would like to comment on what we can see of the rest of this hilt. The grip...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2024, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 33
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2024, 04:15 PM
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MTK, this appears to be a machete with a hole...
MTK, this appears to be a machete with a hole towards the tip that may have been meant to fit over a nut and used to undo or tighten it. Can you tells us where you found this specimen or any other...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2024, 03:52 PM
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Replies: 33
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2024, 05:50 AM
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Replies: 33
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Alan, Thank you for showing another wonderful...
Alan, Thank you for showing another wonderful example of this early form of Moro kris! The similarities with the Bugis keris shown at the top of this thread are again obvious. Yours also shows a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 33
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Kai, the apparent diameters are a little...
Kai, the apparent diameters are a little misleading because of the different degrees to which I cropped the pictures (and thus the magnification is slightly different). Eyeballing the pictures shown...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th April 2024, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 15,470
David and Detlef,
Geometry tells us that the...
David and Detlef,
Geometry tells us that the only cross-section that produces a uniform width when viewed from several angles is a circle (or a circular object with many small facets). I believe...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 33
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More X-rays of the hilt
Here are the views obtained with rotation of the long axis of the sword. They show that tang width at various points along the hilt shows slight narrowing with progressive rotation from horizontal...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 08:03 PM
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Replies: 33
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X-ray of hilt
As promised, here are the X-rays of the hilt. The various features visible on the X-ray are shown in the picture below, which was taken mainly to visualize the tang. The tang seems quite long...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 04:13 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st April 2024, 05:12 AM
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Sending via eBay and others Global Shipping...
Sending via eBay and others Global Shipping Programs is indeed problematic fro Australia also. However, another egregious policy makes it difficult to not use the GSP. If you ship via the site's...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th April 2024, 08:51 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
12th April 2024, 05:20 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2024, 05:35 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 15,470
David and Detlef,
You are both much more...
David and Detlef,
You are both much more knowledgeable about keris than I am. Thank you for your thoughts. However, neither of you commented on the presence of a round tang versus a flat or...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2024, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 15,470
David, the issue of greneng, or the absence of...
David, the issue of greneng, or the absence of such, is an interesting one. The example shown here by Lief has some greneng, still visible but seriously worn down. Detlef's example similarly shows...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2024, 02:22 PM
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Replies: 33
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Examination of the tang with X-rays
Today I visited a veterinarian friend who has an X-ray machine. By cranking the machine up to 90kV and 0.5 mA I was able to get some very respectable views of the tang through the silver wrap on the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th April 2024, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 15,470
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th April 2024, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 6,081
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