Can I See Your Weapon ?

[molly bloom]

Something I'd like to purchase.

I find antique weapons very attractive, not so much from the age of gunpowder onwards, but there are exceptions.

This a Rarotonga pole club :



beautiful and lethal.

This South Sea Island club is remarkably similar in appearance (if not substance) to Mediaeval European maces.



This is a Maori short club, or kotiate :



This is an African weapon :



as is this throwing knife :




One of the more unusual throwing weapons is the chakram, used by the Sikhs :



a razor-edged war quoit.

This dagger was known as a sword-breaker, designed to trap the opponent's sword thrust in the notches- then with a strong twist of the wrist, a thin blade could be broken or wrested from the other's hand.



And this is your actual axe headed wheellock pistol :

[pchang]

I like the Pacific Islander weapons that are studded with shark teeth. Do the Maori have any of those?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

This is some beautiful, neat stuff, molly.

[ricketyclik]

A la Amanda Vanstone

[The Mad Monk]

[Sava]

like ten years ago I bought a $10 sword that was made in pakistan

I think if you swung it, it might hurt you more than an enemy.

[rah]

When I saw you had posted in this thread I was afraid to open it.

What you might consider a weapon and post a picture of it.

[Sava]

why's that?

I'm a lover

not a fighter


I only get mean when playing hockey.

[Sava]

though, I also have some cheap wooden nunchuks, a wooden training ninja sword

I'm still trying to get the turret for the Oerlikon working

[ricketyclik]

So that's where she got the idea!

[rah]

Well by Kid's world view even a lover would consider it a weapon.

[Sava]

I do own several large dildos that could be made into weapons

[pchang]

www.tikimaster.com sells these things.

[rah]

I do own several large dildos that could be made into weapons

TMI

[molly bloom]

I like the Pacific Islander weapons that are studded with shark teeth. Do the Maori have any of those?

The Maori do employ them and sharkstooth armour & weapons are also found in Pacific Island cultures :

When we find models of this class of weapon so widely distributed in the lower creation, it is not surprising that the first efforts of mankind in the construction of trenchant implements, should so universally consist of teeth or flint flakes, arranged along the edges of staves or clubs, in exact imitation of the examples which he finds ready to his hand, in the mouths of the animals which he captures, and in which he is dependent for his food. Several specimens of implements, edged in this manner with sharks' teeth, from the Museum of the Institution, are now exhibited (Figs. 71, 72, 73, 74). They are found chiefly in the Marquesas, in Tahite, Depeyster's Island, Byron's Isles, the King's Mill group, Radact Island [87], and the Sandwich Islands [88], also in New Zealand (Fig. 75). They are of various shapes, and used for various cutting purposes, as knives, swords, and glaives. Two distinct methods of fastening the teeth to the wood prevail in the Polynesian Islands; firstly, by inserting them in a groove cut in the sides of the stick or weapon, and, secondly, by arranging the teeth in a row, along the sides of the stick, between two small strips of wood on either side of the teeth, lashed on to the staff, in all cases, with small strings, composed of plant fibre. The points of the teeth are usually arranged in two opposite directions on the same staff, so that a severe cut may be given either in thrusting or withdrawing the weapon. [89]
A similarly constructed implement, also edged with sharks' teeth, was found by Captain Graah, on the east coast of Greenland, and is mentioned in Dr. King's paper on the industrial arts of the Esquimaux, in the Transactions of the Ethnological Society, [90] The teeth in this implement were secured by small nails, or pegs of bone; it was also used formerly on the West Coast. A precisely similar implement (Fig. 76), but showing an advance in art by being set with a row of chips of meteoric iron, was found amongst the Esquimaux of Davis Strait, and is now in the department of meteorolites in the British Museum. Others, of the same nature, from Greenland, are in the Christy collection (Fig. 77). The pacho, of the South Sea Islands, appears to have been a sort of club, armed on the inner side with shark's teeth, set in the same manner. [91]

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/primary-documents-index/14-general/753-primitive-warfare-1-1867/

The defence against the shark tooth studded weaponry was a tough armour made from coconut fibre and helmets made from porcupine fish!

Quite fetching...