Thanks Alan for joining this discussion.
Maybe it has drifted away a bit from the original post but I find it very interesting anyway. I do collect arit as well but not the "ani-ani" variations found all over too. In a away I try to focus on weapons even if some of them originally and foremost were utility knives, like the arit. Within the family of rice harvesting knives we should also mention the korambit of Sumatra, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Michael
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