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|  24th February 2018, 10:00 PM | #1 | 
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				 |  PARANG NIABOR 
			
			This is an example of an Parang Niabor used by the Sea dayaks. Ben | 
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|  25th February 2018, 07:50 AM | #2 | 
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			Nice one. bit older than mine too.
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|  25th February 2018, 12:02 PM | #3 | 
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			Am I correct in thinking that these are very very rare ? I have been collecting for over 40 years and never seen one let alone owned one. Regards Roy | 
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|  25th February 2018, 02:27 PM | #4 | |
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 Yes correct they very rare I had 3 but this one was the best so I did get it back this one could be easy from the 1700 s Ben | |
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|  25th February 2018, 10:38 PM | #5 | |
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|  1st March 2018, 04:39 PM | #6 | 
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			Parang Niabors indeed are rare to find, also because they are very old, and a charactaristic sword in use, when the langgai tinggai and jimpul were even called recent. Even in museum collections they hardly occur, only from very early collected collections. But also in these museum collections they never show up in large numbers. :-) Kind regards, Maurice | 
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|  25th February 2018, 04:49 PM | #7 | |
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			Hello Wayne, Quote: 
  Your's is not a parang niabor though. Regards, Kai | |
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|  25th February 2018, 05:58 PM | #8 | 
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			Langgai Tinggang then?    | 
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|  25th February 2018, 07:19 PM | #9 | |
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 http://old.blades.free.fr/swords/day...ayak_intro.htm Ben | |
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|  25th February 2018, 09:08 PM | #10 | 
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			yup, that's where i got the name from....
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|  25th February 2018, 09:57 PM | #11 | |
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			Hello Wayne, Quote: 
 Assuming that your blade's cross-section isn't convex/concave, it possibly is supposed to represent a langgai tinggang... Regards, Kai Last edited by kai; 26th February 2018 at 08:49 AM. | |
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|  7th March 2018, 06:07 PM | #12 | |
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 Not correct the langgai tinggai Has an very different krowit. It is an cross we see this a lot with the newer type s Ben | |
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