TWO BORNEO SWORDS AND SHEATHS: a Dayak sword, the curved metal blade with a band of incised scrolls to each side, the bone hilt carved with scrolls and inset with tufts of dyed hair, carved wood sheath; the other with incised ornament to the iron blade, antler hilt, the wood sheath with painted scrolling ornament and bound at intervals with fibre suspending tassels of red seeds and teeth, small knife in sheath to one side 76cm. and 71cm. long (2)
TWO BORNEO SWORDS AND SHEATHS: a Dayak sword, the curved metal blade with a band of incised scrolls to each side, the bone hilt carved with scrolls and inset with tufts of dyed hair, carved wood sheath; the other with incised ornament to the iron blade, antler hilt, the wood sheath with painted scrolling ornament and bound at intervals with fibre suspending tassels of red seeds and teeth, small knife in sheath to one side 76cm. and 71cm. long (2)
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