Chinese (?) knife

[David]

Originally Posted by ausjulius

vikings didnt have a puukko, the puukko came from the far east and siberia ,,


the knife in the pick ,, looks to be baoan ... a moslem mongolian ethnic group from china..

language and culture is mixed between uzbek and mongols.. and some others

The Puuko as i understand it is the signature knife of Northern Europe, specifically Finland. That being the cased i guess my reference was a bit of a stretch since the Vikings, i believe, were a little to the west....but the far east? That seems a little off to me.

Well, at least according to Wiki the word is from the Finnish language, but can also apply to a Norwegian knife as well so perhaps my Viking reference isn't too far a field.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puukko

[David]

Well, i found this on an internet site labeled 19thC Tibetan utility knife. I bit fancier, but with many of the same elements. They could be wrong as well, but it seems to reinforce a Tibetan origin.