Subject: سردار sardar military nobleman
Culture: Afghan
Setting: Afghanistan late 19th-early 20thc
Object: sabers
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." ...
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