The Wild West Meets the Wild East

[Sean Manning]

The "boak" is in German, so I really don't know the date, quite a bit before Colonal Klink. Strapping the akinakes to the outer thigh began in the 4th century BC in the Altai and Sayan regions, then moved just about everywhere... including Arabia. :dizzy:

Are you sure about the date and place? We see akinakai strapped to the thigh on the reliefs of Darius I at Behistun and Persepolis in the late 6th century BCE. I am told that pistol holsters strapped to the thigh were invented in Hollywood in the 1950s.