Balatos -- swords with balls

[Cyclura99]

I do not see the point of buying and or collectiong FAKE, REPRODUCTION and or REPLACEMENT - Dance swords - that were made late 1950-80's made for the Nias dances for the vistiting tourists .

I thought the point of collecting ethnographic weapons was to aquire the best examples of a specific culture.That were used in a tribal context used tribaly 19th c or very early 20th c examples when the NIAS culture in the south was still present ie headhuting was still occuring , and all other aspects of the culture.


As far as posting pictures maybe but I am thru sending pictures of items for sale when all one wants to do is picture collect. Or get others opinions before one can make a decsion on if one should buy the item or not.In my opinion if a person has to get opinions of others inorder to buy an item that person does not belong in the game of collecting .

Just my humble opinion.

Cy