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Bill Marsh
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 Posted: Sun 20 Mar, 2005 5:37 pm Post subject: Seems like you like the broadswords. |
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Sudanese Kaskara. This is an unusual one with the silver hilt. Probably belonged to a chief of the people also known as Da Fur from the Fur tribe in northern Africa. Blade and hilt is 43" long. There is a little bit of discoloration in the pictures where the flash did not overpower the overhead lights.
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Gordon Frye
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Very Nice! Thank you, just the thing for slicing up Englishmen trying to suppress the Mahdi's followers :D
Interesting how the fuller goes to the point, just like the basket hilted Heavy Dragoon swords from the mid-18th Century that Mac posted pictures of recently.
Gordon
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Aaron Schnatterly
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| Gordon Frye wrote: | | Interesting how the fuller goes to the point, just like the basket hilted Heavy Dragoon swords from the mid-18th Century that Mac posted pictures of recently. |
Odd how we all focus on different aspects... I was actually focusing on the interesting aspect of the spatulate tip of the scabbard. I had to go back and look at the sword itself... which, as a pair, makes for quite an interesting piece as well.
Bill, are these pieces you have, pieces from a museum, or what?
-Aaron Schnatterly
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Fortior Qui Se Vincit
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Alina Boyden
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Nice Kaskara! I got the opportunity to handle one of these the other day. I liked it quite a bit. The Sudanese Kaskara has always been one of my favorite non-western sword forms. Probably because it looks so western...
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Jeremy V. Krause
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I don't know what to say,
seing this sword is very confusing and envigorating for me. It looks so high-medieval! It's like I want to think it is a fantasy piece but I know that it is not.
Thanks to you and myArmoury for helping me grow in my conceptions of the field of arms and armour.
Excuse me but- man! tha't wierd! :eek: :lol:
Jeremy
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Dan Tucker
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Fascinating! the kaskara seems to be the eastern cousin of the Tuareg takouba, a somewhat similar long double edged sword, although with a much different hilt and a more tapered blade with a rounded point.
it would be interesting to see some information on the military and cultural context in which the kaskara was used, as I have heard of historic mounted soldiers of the Sudan using quilted armor and even mail.
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