1592999779000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-158305 1747160607501 1714474935000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-158305 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158305 bcd6959b-0f00-38fa-aaab-bd31f1d533b6 7 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons reference term-126216 adlib-term-126216 6c7247d5-cf34-3e0d-a07e-9ae6b2743929 Robert Taylor Length cm 29 Blade Applied Arts Of steel, and of massive proportion, the blade is curved and double edged, with two deep and two shallow fullers at the centre, and a heavy reinforced point. It is joined to the socket by a massive langet, chiselled with dragons’ heads at either side of a lotus bud. The socket itself is faceted, with bands of chiselled foliage, and three mouldings, at the blade of roped, hatched and beaded ornament, in the centre of beaded ornament between ribs of roping, and at the end a seven-stage stepped ornamental band of beading, roping and bands of foliage. The whole is bright with little pitting. O.165-1879 1 accession number O.165-1879 158305 priref 158305 1879 1879 1879 List of Arms in Taylor Collection old object number 165 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158305 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158305 adhesive paper label printed 165 label inscribed 165 tag reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Robert Taylor, MA reference agent-180016 adlib-agent-180016 de4194d2-ab82-3bf8-95cd-a266949bffea Taylor, Robert, MA given Entry date: 1879-02-10 1580 1580 CE 1580 circa 1580 1600 possibly 1 1600 CE 1600 1600 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown Compare Government Museum Chennai no. 2236, which has a band of Telugu round the socket and is of exactly the same form, as is O.166.1879 (Documentation, Elgood 2004). Taylor notes (see Documentation, Cambridge 1879) these ‘should be fixed on stout bamboos, 6 to 8 feet long. These weapons are the famous ‘Polygar spears’, used with such terrible effect by the retainers of the Polygars (‘barons’ of Southern India) in the wars of the beginning of the century.’ This fine and very effective example is from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Robert Taylor, who collected it in India and gave it the museum, said that it would have been ‘fixed on stout bamboos, 6 to 8 feet long’ (1.8–2.4 metres). He also says that were the famous ‘polygar spears used with such effect by the retainers of the polygars (barons) of southern India in the wars at the beginning of the century’.’ reference term-106402 adlib-term-106402 7466a5d6-293f-3bbc-9672-fa9dd41712be 16th Century, Late reference term-126223 adlib-term-126223 152dd0e7-92aa-3117-b8f0-f667f1b8b81e literal India India country South India reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Length cm 49 Weight g 1575 reference term-47391 adlib-term-47391 d8f9581b-d324-34c6-b40c-8293e7418680 spearhead object name reference term-126218 adlib-term-126218 5c8f101c-7368-3b5a-a61d-702fe0e8b92d Indian weapons category history note From Madura reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-6089 adlib-publication-6089 762534e6-b9a6-3c98-ad56-fac315162b46 List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879 Cf. fig. 19.13, p. 194, a spear in the Government Museum Chennai no. 2236, which has a band of Telugu round the socket and is of exactly the same form, as is O.166-1879 194 reference publication-6091 adlib-publication-6091 ce3764f9-3776-306c-8b0c-0ff51f18c97f Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865

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