Subject: tribal warrior
Culture: Khasi
Setting: Assam 19thc
Object: noklang sword
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Long sword (noklang) Indian, Assam, Khasi, 19th century The arms of the Khasis are quite distinctive.
In their culture the old Indian two-handed sword, which in antiquity was common throughout the subcontinent, survived." ...
