Hunga Munga throwing knife
Jivaro
Brian W Edginton
wrote:
>Anyone know where I can get an authentic Hunga Munga knife?
From a Hunga Munga dealer ??
You are joking, aren't you ?
Brian WE
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eric pearson
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 02:03:18 -0700, Jivaro <Jiv...@thejungle.com>
wrote:
>Anyone know where I can get an authentic Hunga Munga knife?
regards,
eric pearson
er...@nospammindspring.com
Bob Giddings
Cowabunga, Buffalo Bob!
This thing looks like a giant canopener. I sure would hate to see it
flying at me!
Matthew Rapaport
Atlanta Cutlery has them. I think I have a pointer to them at
http://www.crl.com/~mjr/catalogs.html, but I'm not sure. They can probably
be looked up on any search engine... As for authenticity, I wouldn't know,
but I suspect that the authentic ones are not made from very good metal.
After all, it doesn't have to be ultrasharp or strong after all to split
someone's head.
--
The difference between theory and practice is that in theory,
there is no difference, but in practice, there is.
matthew rapaport *-KD6KVH-* m...@crl.com
Chas
>As for authenticity, I wouldn't know,
> but I suspect that the authentic ones are not made from very good metal.
Good metal or not, they are often dressed up with copper, brass and
silver, very ornate and intricate filigree and overlay work, oftentimes
they'll have decorative forging and piercing. They were probably made
from a 'found' steel and treated like O1- they're forged quite thin with
centered ribs for strength.
Even the 'plain' ones are quite expensive- $200 would get an easy one,
$2000 might not buy a really nice one. As with all 'primitive' cultures,
their artifacts- specifically weapons, are very desirable. Those
cultures won't exist in another twenty years.
Chas
buying hunga-mungas' as we speak-
Bernard R. Levine
you wait there are pictures of many fine African throwing knives in
these two museum exhibit catalogs (both, alas, out of print):
Blades of Beauty and Death: African Art Forged in Metal; Mesa College
Art Gallery, curated by Barbara Blackmun and Jacques Hautelet.
African Metal Implements: Weapons, Tools and Regalia; Collection of
Frederick & Claire Mebel; Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island
University; curated by Peter Westerdijk.
[This book includes several of the various local names for these
knives. Oddly, 'hunga munga' is not among them; I don't know where
this term came from.]
For these catalogs, you might try some of the book search engines
(e.g. http://www.bookfinder.com/ )
BTW the blades of authentic 18th-19th century subSaharan African
knives and edged weapons are generally quite good quality. The steel
was locally made using a small-scale version of the Bessemer process,
invented LONG before Bessemer was born.
BRL...