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| Weapon type: | Dagger, thrusting dagger |
| Designations: | Qatar, Scissors Qatar, Scissors Qatar |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
India , warrior box in India |
| Distribution: | India |
| Overall length: | about 42 cm |
| Blade length: | about 21 cm |
| Handle: | metal |
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The scissors Qatar , engl. Scissors Qatar , Three blade Qatar , (also Coutar , Katah , Koutah , Kutah , Kutar or Bundi Dagger ) is a dagger from India.
description
The scissors Qatar has three straight, double-edged blades. The middle blade is designed as usual with the Qatar and becomes narrower from the handle to the location . On the right and left side of the blade, near the handle, there are two more blades. These blades are narrower and smaller than the middle blade and usually have a strong central ridge. In the normal carrying position, these two outer blades are folded onto the middle blade so that the appearance of a single blade is created (see web links). By pressing the two transverse handles in the handle together, the two outer blades are unfolded by a mechanism similar to scissors. This creates a kind of fork that can be used to repel attacks. An example of this type can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with inventory number 36.25.737 .
See also
- Qatar
- Hooded Qatar
- Qatar (curved blade)
- Pushed-in Qatar
- Combined Saber Qatar
- Pistol Qatar
- Triad Qatar
- Dsulfiquar Qatar
literature
- Anthony C. Tirri: Islamic weapons: Maghrib to Moghul. Verlag Indigo, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9747192-7-6 .
- Lord Egerton of Tatton, Wilbraham Egerton Egerton: Indian and Oriental Armor. 1896, Dover Publications, 2002, illustrated edition, ISBN 978-0-486-42229-9 (reprint).
- 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 (reprint), pages 344-347.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 (reprint), page 345.
- ↑ Inventory number 36.25.737 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
