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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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That is one sexy dagger.
Thought I was reading Ten Forward for a second.
I don't know if that was the real dagger, but good for the Hawaiians for killing that colonialist fuckhead.
How can this weapon be forgotten if it’s literally on display?
This is a community named after a YouTube channel that disassembles (when possible) weapons and explains their history/engineering hosted by Ian McCollum. Not everything is truly 'forgotten' the community is more about posting educational or entertaining content fans of the show might enjoy.
The very act of showing any weapon on Forgotten Weapons would mean the weapon is no longer forgotten..
Were they trying for fillets?
I had just read a Star Trek post, then this post. I could have sworn it said James T Kirk. I had to zoom in to see who killed Kirk.
From a knife geek, that's a nice freaking knife, even ignoring the historic aspect.
Come to Spain, in particular to Toledo. We have amazing knives and swords ;) we made the ones for the Lord of the Rings movies!!
I think the 'reputedly' is doing a lot of lifting. I mean the origins of the weapon being in Hawaiian possession are not clear and why did his crew somehow rescue this weapon wist leaving their captain behind?
The wikipedia article is pretty interesting.
TLDR: the Hawaiians kept the body for funeral rites.
The more I read about this account the more it looks like Cook was a bully who got his comeuppance and the Hawaiians treated him respectfully even after killing him.
I'm not sure English navy ship captains were known for their respect to local cultures in general. I wonder if he was outside the range of normal as far as assholery. I'm just impressed the Hawaiians went from "this is a god" to "this is bullshit" inside a month.