Balato

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Originally Posted by Battara

What about the ball of "tusks" on the scabbard?

if it was my sword I should remove the ball completely or remove the wooden tusks ( carefully ) and try to hunt for some real tusks on ebay or so.

wooden tusks wheren't used on Nias, the reason why they added tusks on the ball was by the ideas of animistic belief to load up the sword ( or actually the ball) with power as teeth,horns etc are fastgrowers.
it shouldn't have not any sense to add wooden replica's

in original old charmsballs the tusks are often elongated with wooden pegs to make them round around the ball. ( I will see if I can find a pic)

Arjan