Third example of Taiwanese Aboriginal Sword

yuanzhumin · 5th June 2013, 02:33 PM

Sorry Rick, I just see that you have already posted the two other knives.

This one is as old and authentic as the first I saw!

Very nice one! Great carving! The zig zag line by the way is symbolizing the snake skin! The hundred pace snake (named like this because once you have been beaten you can only walk hundred paces before falling down, dead!) is considered in the Paiwan myth to be the original ancestor of their nobility!

5th June 2013, 02:33 PM	#4
yuanzhumin Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ex-Taipei, Taiwan, now in Shanghai, China Posts: 180	Sorry Rick, I just see that you have already posted the two other knives. This one is as old and authentic as the first I saw! Very nice one! Great carving! The zig zag line by the way is symbolizing the snake skin! The hundred pace snake (named like this because once you have been beaten you can only walk hundred paces before falling down, dead!) is considered in the Paiwan myth to be the original ancestor of their nobility!