Subject: tribal warrior
Culture: Santhal
Setting: eastern India 19thc
Object: pharetri, tongi ax
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Group of axes (tongi) Indian, Orissa, Khond, 19th century
The principal weapon of the Khond tribes was the two-handed axe.
It is distinguished by its wide variety of often multiple-pointed blades.
Tongi is the Hindi name for them; indigenously, they were called pharetri."
