"Nung Rawang Warrior Saber And Scabbard, Kachin State, Burma"
Saber and its traditional scabbard of the Nung Rawang tribes, ivory handle, chiseled silver handle and rattan covered with red lacquer with oxidized iron blade, the wooden scabbard richly painted with geometric patterns and woven rattan.machete and scabbard 89 cm, machete size 66 cm
piece collected by me in 1988.
End of the 19th century, Burma.
book: "the vanishing tribes of Burma" page 201 - by richard k. Diran.
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