Parang SABER and its SCABBARD

Greater Sunda Islands (area) , Sumatra, Indonesia

nineteenth century

Steel, horn, gilded brass, wood and iron

Long. total: 55; Long. blade: 38.8 cm

(lack)

Single-edged steel blade, thick back and straight tip, slightly beveled, flared brown horn pommel forming a stylized avian head and high seven-sided gilded brass ferrule.

Scabbard made of a wooden blade garnished with three large strips of blond horns riveted with strips of gilded brass. The cope is in brown leather with incised geometric decoration, the button in gilded brass riveted five times.

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