Swords from the Egerton's book

[Ian]

Ariel:

My understanding of Egerton's book is that all weapons illustrated in the book were collected by him personally and donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Those weapons should still be in storage somewhere.

As far as his attributions of weapons from SE Asia, Egerton never traveled to those areas AFAIK so he would have collected such weapons from intermediaries who could have got the attributions completely wrong. Generally, his Indian weapons seem pretty well attributed and described.

Ian.

Originally Posted by ariel

Egerton is not a very reliable source of information. Any book putting a Parang Latok and a Mandau among the weapons of Assam and N.E. frontier (p. 84, Fig.19) is suspect.
However, he mentions specific weapons such as Lumbiri, a battle-axe of the Garo Naga,a naginata-like "Veecharooval" , batlle axe "Venmuroo" (p.79, Fig 17, ## 89,90,97).
What do we know about them? Are they just a figment of imagination, misreading, or are they real definitions of particular weapons?