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Originally Posted by ZhenjieWu
I thinks this is probably a dagger widely used in North West of China, whose name is "Bao An" dao (Bao An is the name of one minority of China).
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Please tell me more about the Bao An people and their weapons if you can. A friend of mine found me a knife like this in Qinghai province in 1993 while pretending to be an ethnic Moslem to escape travel restrictions on westerners. I understood the knife to be made by ethnic Tibetans. In general, the layered pattern of metals and horn in the handle and pommel is quite similar to Eastern Tibetan styles such as this one:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j6...E5AEB600-1.jpg
Are the Bao An ethnic Tibetans, or are they a separate ethnic group, perhaps like the Yi with a Tibetan influence?
Thanks,
Josh