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Oriental Arms
In the late nineteen's and early twentieth centuries Caucasian armourers produced a special kind of cavalry sword, the socalled "shashka", or "long knife ", resembling a sabre but with the blade only slightly curved and without a crossguard. Quite varied is belonging to the period of the late Middle Ages: hauberks, breastplates, armlets, leggings and greaves, shields and sabres, all kinds of halberds and helmets. Used by Caucasian warriors, such weaponry was both imported and made in the Caucasus.
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Bronze dagger.
15th century B.C.
Battle-axe.
17th-18th cent.
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Detail of bronze
sword and head of
mace,15th B.C.
Helmet, armlet.
truncheon,
18th cent.
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Detail of flintlock gun,
cartridge box and powder
flask. 19th cent.
19th-centure
percussion-cap gun,
detail
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Knives,
18th cent..
Dagger with
scabbard.
19th cent.
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Armlet
and helmet.
18th cent.
Staff.
17th cent.,
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Flintlock pistols
and breast cartridge
pockets.18th-19th cent.
Flintlock pistols
with oil cup, first half
of 19th cent.





Category: FOLKLORE | Added by: shamsi_84 (07.05.2011)
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