Omani Khanjar (Jambiya) for Comment.

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by estcrh

Ibrahiim and Jim, while you should be able to completely trust the descriptions provided by the Met that simply is not currently possible, you have to look at each individual item and decide for yourself if the discription is a accurate and or complete. I have spent a considerable amount of time going through every available image of the armor and weapons that can in any way be called "Indo-Persian" and the Met just has not done what can be called a great job of describing many of the items. I have found discriptions that are vague, incomplete and in some cased just plain wrong and for such an esteemed museum with such a wonderful collection this should not be.
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I agree with Estrech.
The descriptions on the MET website are just crap, most of them.
The book published recently is excellent, a sourcebook, by one of the best specialist, Alexander. As always the best specialists are not in the Museums!
Where curators are paid to sleep on their collections...

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Kubur

I agree with Estrech.
The descriptions on the MET website are just crap, most of them.
The book published recently is excellent, a sourcebook, by one of the best specialist, Alexander. As always the best specialists are not in the Museums!
Where curators are paid to sleep on their collections...

David G. Alexander is an independent scholar specializing in Islamic arms, he is the author of "The arts of war: arms and armour of the 7th to 19th centuries" (Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art's collection of arms and armor), 1992 and I believe he was also a researcher at the Met.