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INDIAN

Jambiya and scabbard

RCIN 11302

This hook-bladed dagger is based on the Arabian dagger known as a jambiya. Mercenaries from Arabia were employed in the court of Hyderabad from the eighteenth century and this dagger illustrates this historic link.

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