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>Costume Studies
>>1940 Land Dayak panjamon
>>>swords
>>>>parang latok
Subjectpanjamon warrior
Culture: Land Dayak
Setting: tribal warfare, Kalimantan 19-20thc
Objectparang latok sword





Valiant Co. #AB-05D *
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* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Sword (parang)  Borneo, 19th century
Parang is the general term applied to most Borneo swords, 
and to a large group of swords spread through Indonesia.
This particular type, the latok buku, was used by the Land Dyaks of Mindanao." [SIC]