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Description: | North Indian sword, tulwar. The blade is slightly curved and single-edged. The brass hilt is chased with flowers and gilded. In its wooden scabbard covered with velvet and fitted with a large gilt brass locket chased with flowers and foliage. The hilt is a decadent form of the Sinde hilt as found fitted to the group of tulwars made for the Talpur family. Both hilt and locket were probably made in the city of Bhuj.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn4124.1 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | metal swords brass iron War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-226555 | Go to resource |
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