Nepalese bowie

[Tim Simmons]

This has turned out to be quite interesting one could draw an arc E,W or W,E alone the Chinese border into Afghanistan or Assam/Burma.

[spiral]

Indeed it is Tim!

All that area is also of historical Gurkha service.

For holding the borders of the empire together against the hoards who couldnt be reliably & regularily either beaten or bought.

{Still the same service areas today actualy, Brit Gurkhas in Afghanistan & Indian Gorkhas in Assam & Nepali Army bordering China. {ex. Tibet of course.}


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[Tim Simmons]

This ended yesterday, just remembered I saved the picture. Just over 11 inches long so a fairly small blade.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

This has turned out to be quite interesting one could draw an arc E,W or W,E alone the Chinese border into Afghanistan or Assam/Burma.

Just looking at the "arc" along the Chinese border again ... its called Tibet.

A lot of trade passed through Tibet, but this doesn't look like anything I'd think of as Tibetan. Maybe there is an example in the new book Ariel posted about?

[Tim Simmons]

Indeed that could well explain any such links. There is not an example in the new Met publication, but it is not too far a stretch of the imaginaqtion to see a relation to the long swords with same type of curved tip.

[spiral]

To me The last picture posted looks very similar to the early 20th centry Indian bowies made at Aurungabad but still bears resemblance to the more ethnic styles previously shown. Intresting.

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