any images of Madagascan swords?

ausjulius · 28th February 2021, 06:18 AM

here i found soem more images.. this is the dahb like swords ive seen.. also french wikibeadia has images of two "19th century madagascan sabres" under the french section on machetes that are with knuckle blows but have similar blades..
this clearly shows some sort of swords

an interesthing very thick bladed knife
http://ancientpoint.com/inf/188749-a..._mid_20th.html

this dahb type sword in the links Duccio post earlier
https://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/explore...telas/page/11/

images fo malagasy swords fomr wikipeadia i have dfound with a similar blade

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machette#/media/Fichier:Sabre_d'abattis_MHNT_ETH_AC_MD_56_Juilen.j pg

these are pretty distinct..
im really confused why even in french informaiton is so obscure, maybe few things have survived or european weapons were preferred

28th February 2021, 06:18 AM	#9
ausjulius Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: musorian territory Posts: 444	here i found soem more images.. this is the dahb like swords ive seen.. also french wikibeadia has images of two "19th century madagascan sabres" under the french section on machetes that are with knuckle blows but have similar blades.. this clearly shows some sort of swords an interesthing very thick bladed knife http://ancientpoint.com/inf/188749-a..._mid_20th.html this dahb type sword in the links Duccio post earlier https://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/explore...telas/page/11/ images fo malagasy swords fomr wikipeadia i have dfound with a similar blade https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machette#/media/Fichier:Sabre_d'abattis_MHNT_ETH_AC_MD_56_Juilen.j pg these are pretty distinct.. im really confused why even in french informaiton is so obscure, maybe few things have survived or european weapons were preferred Attached Images