Maker: Unknown
The blade is large and crescent shaped with a central dip, and attached by a rivet with a petalled copper washer with a narrow but solid socket for the haft, forged with a medial ridge around the rear. The haft is of wood, reinforced at the junction with the blade with three iron strips, the out two twisted, at the front, bound on with leather thongs, and an iron plate with a dagged top at the rear. Above the blade is a copper alloy ferrule, decorated with geometrical ornament, and a small iron top spike. At the bottom of the haft is another section bound with leather thongs
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 42.8 cm
Overall Length: 123.2 cm
Weight: 1270 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1879
CE
A fighting axe used by the Bygas, a tribe of central India. According to reports this type of axe could be used to kill tigers and could also be thrown to catch small mammals.
Exactly like Royal Armouries XXVIC.20 (Richardson 2007: 4). Taylor’s printed list calls these ‘kolhan strangi’, an otherwise unattested term
Inscription present: attached
Accession number: O.110-1879
Primary reference Number: 158425
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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