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Old 7th June 2014, 06:42 PM   #1
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Thanks all

Your photo is very interesting.

My question is:

We always say ceremonial, but these axes were used by Fakir and sufi in India and Persia,
then it was the same with the dervishes in Sudan.
All these people are connected by faith and by their axes...

I enclose one double headed axe that I guess is from the 19th.
and connected to what I said.
Any ideas, comments or more photos??
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Old 8th June 2014, 02:43 AM   #2
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Not much to add but a lovely picture of two Jewish dervishes supposedly from Iran and taken in the nineteen twenties.
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Old 8th June 2014, 05:17 PM   #3
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See~

1. http://touba.tumblr.com/post/1021697...arvish-and-his

2. http://shahrefarang.com/en/qajar-dervishes/

for more examples.

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Old 8th June 2014, 05:46 PM   #4
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The second link is amazing!
Elf choukran

I wanted to say that 'ceremonial' means used by people (sufi or fakir)
not for battle, but it's still cool
I think that an object used is still a valuable object
if we follow the definition of an ethnographic collection
it's the same with African masks.

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