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>>1829 Khasi warrior
>>>sword
Subject: tribal warrior
Culture: Khasi
Setting: Assam 19thc
Objectnoklang 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." ...