English: Object Title:

Dagger (parang latok)

Date: 1800-1899

Object Number: XXVID.121

Provenance: Found on loan L221.8 to the Horniman Museum (no. 1971.36), Dreadnought Building Store, August 1987.

Physical Description: The blade emerges from the hilt as a square sectioned bar that angles into the blade proper. This has a single straight cutting edge and widens somewhat towards the point where the back curves to meet it. The grip is of brass with numerous transverse grooves topped by a pommel of staghorn carved with scrolling foliage.

Dimensions: Dimensions: overall length: 64.3cm (25.4in), blade length: 51.9cm (20.5in) Weight: The weight of the weapon is 0.75 kg.

Inscriptions and Marks: None.

Associations: Places Borneo

Notes: This is one of the many types of knives called parangs that were probably as much for general use as for weapons. There is a virtually identical one illustrated in De Wapens Van Indie, A.G.van Zonneveld, 1996, Leiden.

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