African weapons

[Fragony]

Does anyone know an expert? I got a dagger here that seems to have something written on it, on my other stuff it's too little to be a language, but here it's all over the blade, it's at least 300 years old and was taken by the Brits in Ivory-coast, know little more about it.

edit, handle is covered with snake leather, and made out of bone

[Dodge_272]

You'll have to post a picture I suppose.

[Centurion1]

lol if it was taken on the ivory coast 300 years ago it is north african muslim in origin, which i find highly ironic with you frags

[Fragony]

Why is that, I collect antique weapons and this is one. It's 'black' tribal, get the same markings on a sword that African shaman's use in rituals, looks a lot like mesopetanian writing, but more expressed never seen anything like it.

very poor pic of the sword



ceremonial axe

[spmetla]

I wouldn't be able to help anyhow but I think you'll need to get some better lighting for your photos. Looks like an octosquid and half a chair's back.

What's the material they're made of? Steel manufacture was primitive at the time and not too widely known in West Africa at the Time. As for the writing perhaps do a paintshop imitation or do a paper mark over.

[Fragony]

I wouldn't be able to help anyhow but I think you'll need to get some better lighting for your photos. Looks like an octosquid and half a chair's back.

What's the material they're made of? Steel manufacture was primitive at the time and not too widely known in West Africa at the Time. As for the writing perhaps do a paintshop imitation or do a paper mark over.

And how the hell have you been doing.

Most is bronze, some more recent are steel, all handles are from ivory or bone, some covered with skin. I will post better pics once I have a new camera my old one found out gravity sucks. It's is pretty amazing stuff and I have gotten my hands on quite a lot of it.



^-- one of the steels

It's not that old by the way, think 3 or 4 centuries.