Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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0/.) B. Arms op Aboriginal Tribes, and of the InhabitantsOF Further India Defensive armour was not in general use, and where employedwas of a primitive kind. A dress from the Khonds, an aboriginaltribe of Orissa, is shown on the east side of the Gallery. Offensive Weapons. From the various swords and daggers of this class a few onlycan bo specially noticed. Fig. 41 A represents the broad-bladed knife used by the Coorgs ofthe Western Ghats. It is worn on the back passed througha brass Iing. K. E 50 ASIA Fig. 41// illustnites the well-known curved knife (Kitlri) of theGurkhas of Nepal. Fig. 417i is an txaini)le of the peculiar Nepalese sword calledKorali, which almost always has a small ilower-shaped ornament,supposed to be the Buddhist lotus, inlaid in the blade Fig. 41 I is another distinctive Nepales^ sword (lidiii Jhio). Itis commonly engraved on the Ijlado with a human eye. said to bea Buddhist s3mbol, and is stated in its larger and heavier formsto ))e used as a sacrificial knife.
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u be (I c / h FiSiam and northwards to the Tibet Border. The shape hassome analogy with that of the Japanese sword. Fig. 41 ?> is a typical Tibetan sword. The spears of this group are of great variety, but all have iron ORIENTAL ARMS AND ARMOUR 51 heads, usually socketed. Perhaps the finest spears are those madeby the hill tribes of Assam (see p. 85). In the wall-casemay be seen two spears or javelins, supposed to be Indian,fitted with a cord-loop for the fingers about the middle of theshaft in order to add to the momentum when the javelin isthrown. This contrivance recalls the ame)dum of the Eomansand the dy^iAv/ of the Greeks, both of which were permanentlyattached to the spear-shaft

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