Monkey Business

I'll post a picture of the blade style later -- remembering that a picture is worth 1,000 words.

Uncle Bill
 
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Here's a Hanuman with the right blade and handle. The arrow points to the spine which runs full length of the blade.

Uncle Bill
 
I'm also waiting for Hanuman to wing his way over to my side. This will be the most unique khukuri I've ever owned and boy! am I excited!

By the time I got around to emailing Uncle Bill for those Hanumans with WWII blades, they were all gone, and since I was planning on eventually getting a Hanuman anyway, I decided, what the heck! might as well get one right away ... now, Uncle says he also has several Gangaolas available, so it looks like that'll be the next khukuri on my list, and then it's the 20" Sirupati, and then ... oh boy! looks like I'll have to cut my expenses somewhere - am I glad I'm single and unlike some of you, don't have to answer to someone about these strange packages and holes in the bank account ;-)

- Sonam
 
Nephew, since you were raised with a khukuri in your hand and khukuris all around I think you will appreciate this Hanuman.

Uncle Bill
 
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Hanuman is now safely in Catoosa OK.
What a delightful young cousin or perhaps that is older cousin!
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Personaly I am glad for the mixup even though it wasn't what Uncle Bill wanted. I am really impressed with Da HanuMan with the WW II blade.He is a Sharp Fellow too! This makes 4 of these that are totally unique.I can just see this little Fellow after a 10 foot bull alligator or anything else for that matter!
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Clay the way I told you to hang this one up isn't going to work. The scabbard doesn't have a frog and besides the problem of having a place to punch a hole,it is just too nice too do that.
What can be done is to make a loop with some nice soft cloth big
enough to hold Him up with just enough slack
to be able to lift Him up to remove the scabbard and all for whatever purpose.
You can attach the loop to the wall in any manner being careful to not have something that will scratch Him or the scabbard.
This one is going on the headboard of our bed.
He will be for those "unwanted guests" or anyone that knocks after 10:00 p.m. let alone the noises in the night.

Thanks Uncle Bill.

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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;---¥vsa----&gt;®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.
 
Hmmm,no frog.Perhaps Bill wil send you one if you do not wear a sash.

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Sash? As much as I weigh now I think it would take a 'bolt' of material to make one for me.
Are suspenders allowed with them?

Seriously I did think that was the idea for wearing it after seeing a post about removing the frog for dress wear. The only times in my life I have worn a sash is when I Gourd Dance.
If I ever come out as a Southern Straight Dancer I will have a fancier one with 'drops' on it.
I could maybe wear a Military Kuhkuri with this outfit,because it can be a 'War Dance',but I have yet to see anyone wearing a weapon while Gourd Dancing.
The Gourd Dance is a Veterans Dance though. I will have to ask one of My Elders abut that,never thought about it before.


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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;---¥vsa----&gt;®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.
 
Gourd Dance? Southern Straight Dance? Northern Paiute & Shoshone Round Dances I've joined, Bear Dancing (I think ), Fancy Dancing and Grass Dancers I've seen, Grand Entries at the Pow Wows I've seen, Sun Dance I KNOW is going on on some Rez's,( along with the sweat lodges and even peyote up McDermitt way ) but people don't even talk about THAT ( Sun Dance ) when they are flat out plastered, and as of a dozen years ago I was given to understand that either two or three still knew the Ghost Dance, passed down from the Woodcutter ( Wovoka ) and his father who started an earlier version in the 70's around Fish Lake Valley that Wovoka took up in the 90's on the Campbell Ranch and Schurz Reservations eventually leading to Wounded Knee ( He's buried on the Walker River Paiute Tribe's rez in Schurz, where I worked 5+ years ( social work/investigations )in the same office as a Mandan Substance Abuse Counselor who'd experienced very similar things we'd only admit having to very trusted, oh never mind, but my grandad grew up 60 or a hundred miles south of OK City with an indian stepdad. Send me a private Email Yvsa, if you want to talk more. Rusty. Sorry to get off topic Bill, but next time you come thru, I'll point out the spot where hundreds died from opium introduced to the res by the coming of the railroad.
 
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Will e-mail soon Rusty. Seems as there is a Sweat tonight here and I have to go prepare myself soon.
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The village Kuhkuri helped to cut some brush for kindling the other evening when one of the youngsters came to split some wood for the fire.

The 15" AK was used at my brothers place not long ago for the same purpose. I imagine if I could possibly make it down to the Sundance that is held close to around here that the Kuhkuri would be used there for cutting wood to among other thngs. It is the knife of choice for cutting the Willows for a Lodge.

I hope that was keeping the obligatory knife,Kuhkuri content in well.
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;---¥vsa----&gt;®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.
 
No one has ever died from opium.I do remember waking up with the sun in my face spreadeagled near a lodge after a pow wow.The Court has ruled peyote lawfull for Indin ceremonies.A matter of religion.

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Impoverishment of the spirit. As the Tribal Chairman said, self-EX-termination, despite the BIA pretending it is self-DE-termination. No more soapbox, let's talk sharp steel!
 
I hear you Ghost, and to clarify, what I meant was that when one of ANY race loses his reason for living, his sense of whom he is and why, (be it called honor, integrity, reputation, spirit, values, beliefs) then opiates and alcohol permit him to let his body follow an already dead spirit into oblivion less painfully physically and mentally - suicide by default - by omission rather than by comission.

And you submitted your comment while I was typing mine, Uncle Bill. Ghost understands. I just didn't use the right words, first time.

[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 11 July 1999).]
 
Having had to deal with those problems I can well understand where you are coming from, Rusty. I think you said to the effect that you had already done a tour of duty in hell and I am inclined to agree with you.

Uncle Bill
 
Ghost does understand,he spent the time on the res.I`m glad to see that my anthropormorphism has taken root.

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