Niabor
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| Weapon type: | sword |
| Designations: | Niabor, Parang-Niabor |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Borneo , Dayak ethnic groups |
| Distribution: | Indonesia |
| Blade length: | about 60 cm to about 90 cm |
| Blade width: | about 1.5 cm on the handle |
| Handle: | Wood, horn, bone |
| Particularities: | Back edge about 20 cm |
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The Parang-Niabor (also Niabor , Beadah , Naibor Nyabor , Nyabur , Parang Njabur Laki-Laki ) is a sword from Borneo .
description
The Parang-Niabor has a slightly curved, double-edged, heavy blade. The blade widens from the handle to the location . The place is rounded or, depending on the version, cut off at an angle. The blade usually has one or more interrupted hollow grinds and no central ridge. They are usually not decorated. On some versions, a nose-shaped projection is forged on the blade, which sits on the cutting edge near the handle. This ledge serves as a kind of parry and is called "Kundieng". He is typical of these swords. Below this "nose" the blade is rectangular. This place is called "Sangau". The piece of blade between the nose and the handle is called "Tamporian". The cutting edge is convex, the back is concave. The handle usually has no guard and consists of the horn of the Sambur stag like the Mandau . The pommel is carved in the traditional way and is never decorated with animal hair. His carvings are named as follows:
- a) cantok resam = The shoots of Gleichenia direktoma .
- b) telingei = scorpion .
- c) entadoc kaul = engl., interlocking caterpillars)
More modern designs often have a hand guard. The Parang-Nabur is used by the Dayak in Borneo and is a version of the Parang .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert G. van Zonneveld: Traditional weapons of the Indonesian archipelago. C. Zwartenkot Art Books, Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-5450-004-2 , p. 90.
literature
- Nick Evangelista : The encyclopedia of the sword. Foreword by William M. Gaugler. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1995, ISBN 0-313-27896-2 , p. 644.
- Ruthi Gertwagen , Avshalom Zemer (Ed.): Pirates. The skull and crossbones. The Haifa Museums - The National Maritime Museum, Haifa 2002, ISBN 965-7067-38-3 , p. 144.
- Otis T. Mason: The origins of the invention. A study of industry among primitive peoples (= The Contemporary Science Series. 28, ZDB -ID 2522713-0 ). Scott et al., London et al. 1895, p. 371 .
- George Cameron Stone : A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all Countries and in all Times. Together with some closely related subjects. With an introduction by Donald J. LaRocca. Dover Publications, Mineola NY 1999, ISBN 0-486-40726-8 , p. 482.
