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Aboriginal woman with a 'sword-club' or 'rainforest sword', Australia, ~1880 (media.piefed.social)

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[–] dumples@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why is the sword so big? There's got to be a practical purpose for it

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Big Bonk, presumably.

If you do no metalworking, scaling is your best tool for making a ~~blunter~~ better blunt weapon. Put some heft behind it!

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[–] dumples@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Makes sense. More force at the end.

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