Subject: jailumi 'champion' tribal warrior
Culture: Pathan / Pashtun Afghan
Setting: tribal / border warfare, Afghanistan 19thc
Object: sabers
* Bazar-Orient
* Leeds City Museum > Voices of Asia
"Sword Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1880-1919 The donor who collected this sword in 1919 was ... R Dennison .... He served as a Lieutenant in a Gurkha Regiment in the North-West Frontier. He told us that this sabre-like sword was made in Waziristan, a region which crosses the Afghan-Pakistan borders, and was made by the Pathans." ...
