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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 
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!  
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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