Maker: Unknown
Huge, with a straight steel blade, of T-section with a slightly curved single edge The hilt is beaked, formed of two panels of wood, secured by three rivets to a full-width tang which ends in a small pierced pommel finial. At the junction with the hilt is a iron ferrule covering the transition from the narrow hilt to the broad blade, with double incised lines bordering the notched front edge
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 59.5 cm
Blade Width Max: 7.2 cm
Overall Length: 75 cm
Weight: 805 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1879
CE
Taylor’s note ‘war knife used in Cabul by the tribes of the north west frontier’. There are a number of these very large chura, one in the Royal Armouries no. xxvis.???, another in the Egerton collection, Manchester City Art Galley no. 1910.???
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.64-1879
Primary reference Number: 158374
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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