Japanese inspired Asian sword
Inspired by uchigatana brought into Vietnam by Japanese refugees who settled along the coast.
Very good Mindan dha
With silver overlay on iron even continued on its hilt.
Mindan Ramayana dha
Fine Mindan dha with a scene from the Ramayana on its blade.
Silver mounted dha
With entirely silver covered hilt and silver mounts on scabbard.
Mindan dha
Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandalay, gained fame in the 19th century.
Burmese dha with interesting blade
With inscriptions on blade, unusual grooves, and brass inlaid copper mounts.
Plain dha with baldric
Nice plain dha as used in Yunnan, Burma, and northern Thailand. Complete with baldric.
A plain dha
Of a type likely produced by the Shan people and traded widely in the region.
Bali straight keris
With fine flaming pamor blade and notched "cekah redut" hilt.
Bali buntel mayat keris
Bali keris with fine slanted wrapped pamor, considered to be one of the most powerful pamor.
European sword blade keris
In the style of a Malay keris panjang.
Vietnamese wooden shield
Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.
Vietnamese shortsword
A short version of the Vietnamese kiếm sword with a finely carved horn hilt.
Very fine Mindan dha
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Dha with story of Maung Tin
Of the silver overlaid type made in Mindan, with an unusual story on the blade.
Parang latok
A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.
Silver hilted keris coteng
A textbook example of this rare and early type of keris.
Cambodian long saber
Sized like the Chinese changren dadao, yet the execution of the hilt is Cambodian.
Chinese demon head saber
Based on a Chinese military saber blade, with unusual horn demon hilt
Southeast Asian sword club
This enigmatic hardwood club is modeled after a sword.
Batad Ifugao hinālung
Rare double-edged shortsword of the Ifugao of northern Luzon.
Group of arms from Tonkin
Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.
Khmer dagger
A rare thousand-year-old dagger from the Khmer empire.
Balinese keris of Ferdinand Blok
The 9-luk blade of strong proportions is engraved with the face of a demon.
Fine Burmese silver sword scabbard
It represents the best of Burmese silversmithing with repousse work in high relief.
A South Nias belatu salà
Rare sword from the headhunters of Nias. Complete with talismanic basket and belt hook.
A Khasi dao
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.
Tonkinese saber
Collected by Victor Auguste Robin, a senior officer of the Tonkin expeditionary force 1885-1887.
Nimble Vietnamese saber
With a narrow, double fullered blade and sharp tip and brass mounts in the earlier style.
Rare beladau lebar dagger
A rare type of dagger from South Kalimantan, loosely based on Islamic daggers seen worn by traders.
Rare Modang Mandau
With the characteristic carved face hilt and the rarer "sarong seltoep" scabbard.
A giant piso raout
An oversized utility knife of the headhunters of Borneo.
Montagnard short saber
Of the hill peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
Fine inlaid sikin panjang
Complete example with the rarer feature of inlays at the base of the blade.
Sulawesi sword with VOC blade
A very good sword from South Sulawesi (Celebes) with silver mounts and a dated VOC blade.
Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade
With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.
Preanger sword with VOC blade
Blade marked with VOC Amsterdam monogram, and the year 1769.
West-Javanese gobang
The sword of the Sundanese people of the Preanger highlands.
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber
Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.
West-Javanese stiletto dagger
Early piece with an unusual European-style stiletto blade.
Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger
A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.
Broad Vietnamese knife
Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.
Dayak dart quiver with darts
Complete with a large number of darts, some with poisoned tips.
Fine Dayak blowgun
Long piece, original length, with aso motif inlaid in blade.
Flame backed double swords
With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.
Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye
Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.
Pair of Siamese royal pole arms
With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.
The O.T. Burne dha
With silver overlaid blade and silver mounts worked in repousse. With some of Burne's personal items.
Vietnamese single edged spearhead
Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.