Sewar (knife)
| Sewar (knife) | |
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| Weapon type: | knife |
| Designations: | Sewar |
| Use: | Weapon, ceremonial weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Indonesia , ethnic groups from Sumatra |
| Distribution: | Indonesia |
| Overall length: | about 22 cm to about 43 cm |
| Blade length: | about 18 cm to about 29 cm |
| Handle: | Wood, horn, metal |
| Particularities: | single or double edged versions |
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The Sewar also Seiva , Sejwa , Siva , Sivas , Siwah , Siwai , Siwar , Siwaz is a knife from Indonesia.
description
The sewar has a slightly curved, single or double-edged blade. Depending on the version, the blade either becomes narrower from the handle to the location or widens towards the location. The double-edged sewar have a back edge that runs from the place to the handle. The blades are either smooth, without a central ridge or hollow grind , with a light hollow grind, with a reinforced back or with several light hollow grinds. The booklet has no guard. Usually a brass ferrule is attached, which is used to better fasten the handle and blade. In the ceremonial versions, these ferrules (indon. Tampo) are particularly richly decorated. This clamp can be rectangular, hexagonal or octagonal. If it is triangular in shape, this clamp is called "Glupa". The booklet is made of wood and is often decorated with carved or metal decorations. There are different versions of the magazine with different names (for example: Hulu Boh Glimo, Akar Bahar). The scabbards are also made of wood, oval in cross section and decorated with carvings. Expensive versions are often studded with precious metals or equipped with precious stones . They consist of two pieces of wood and are held together with rattan or silver and gold ribbons. The mouth of the scabbard is made of wood or precious metals, which are designed à jour or decorated with enamel . They protrude towards the cutting edge. The sewar is used by some ethnic groups in Sumatra.
Individual evidence
- ↑ rektangular , duden.de, accessed on February 27, 2018
- ^ Donn F. Draeger, Weapons and fighting arts of Indonesia, Verlag Tuttle Publishing, 1992, pp. 122, 124, 126-127, ISBN 978-0-8048-1716-5
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, p. 367, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5
- Adolf Bastian: Indonesia: or, The islands of the Malay Archipelago, Volume 5 , Verlag F. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1884
