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Description: | 'Parang bayu' from Borneo with straight steel blade sharpening to a point, broad back, engraving and brass inlay predominently on one side; hilt with carved bone pommel and wooden mount wrapped in tightly woven fibre; wooden split scabbard carved on one side at the top with bands of decorative woven cane; subsiduary wood and leather sheath attached, the bottom decorated with animal hide, tufts of hair and beaded tassels, contains knife with long handle tipped with deer antler; two long woven cane handles, one tied with rope at the end of which is a large deer antler toggle. | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63948 | Go to resource |
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