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Old 25th March 2007, 07:02 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by David
Flavio, i did not intend to suggest that a mandau "is good only when (it) had taken heads". I was merely trying to establish an authentic ethnographic usage well into the latter half of the 20th century. Often when we deal with edged weapons from other cultures their authentic usage has stopped or has been serverely diminished by this point in time.
Hello David, mine wasn't a post against what you say but only a more general thought on these weapons
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