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." ...
