Subject: gaucho cowboy
Culture: Argentine
Setting: South American pampas 19thc
Object: facón knife
Ind Arg *
* Museum of the Americas
"Facón (waist knife) Argentina Silver with gold ornament handle and sheath
Steel blade; 8" l. (the knife is the essential element of gaucho attire)"
* Elmo
* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War
Facón (knife). Gaucho, Argentina or Uruguay"
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Seigen *
* Royal Armouries Museum > Self-Defence
"Knife South American, about 1970
This type of knife was very common among the cowboys or
gauchos of South America. It is still quite common in rural areas." ...
Tramontina / Inox *
