Dayak cutting knife
| Dayak cutting knife | |
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| Weapon type: | knife |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Borneo , various ethnic groups of the Dayak |
| Distribution: | Borneo |
| Overall length: | about 45 cm |
| Blade length: | about 32 cm |
| Blade width: | about 6 cm |
| Blade thickness: | about 0.79 cm |
| Handle: | Wood, horn |
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The Dayak cutting knife is a weapon and a tool of the Dayak in Borneo .
description
The Dayak cutting knife has a single-edged, curved, heavy, wide cutting blade . The blade widened from the handle to the place . The blade has a central ridge that begins just below the ricasso and runs to the place. The place just cut off. On the back of the blade near the place there are circular, openwork decorations. The handle is made of wood, is bent at the end of the knob and decorated with traditional carvings. The Dayak cutting knife is used by the Dayak, the indigenous people of Borneo.
Individual evidence
literature
- George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5
- Diagram Group, The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 BC to the 21st Century , St. Martin's Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-36832-6
Web links
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