- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden sheath for a sword [1910.17.1 .1], with smaller sheath attached, decorated with animal hair and a hornbill feather. [El.B 15/2/2007]
- Long description
- Sheath carved of wood in two halves, bound together with cane, slightly curved, with decorative carving on the top part. Decorated with fringes of animal hair and a black and white feather. Attached is a smaller sheath of ?bark, partly covered with red textile, with a tassel of animal hair. With a belt covered with red textile, with a loop at each end, to one of which is attached a knotted tassel of yellow and green string. [El.B 15/2/2007]
- Cultural groups
- Iban
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1910
- Date collected
- By 1910
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1910
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Cane Plant, Material Animal Hair, Material Bird Feather, Material String, Material Bark Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Plaited, Process Knotted, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 575 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1910.17.1.2
- Research and responses
A langgai tinggang is a sword used by the Iban, curved with a groove along the blade and a finger guard on the blade near the hilt. Langgai tinggang means 'the longest tail-feather of the hornbill'. (information from a website http://old.blades.free.fr.) [El.B 15/2/2007]
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