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DaveA
22nd November 2015, 07:31 PM
Hello All,

I am pleased to have won a very unusual axe at auction, previously identified as mak. See image #1. Photo courtesy of Auctions Imperial.

However, based on the shape of the blade, I believe that it may be an axe originating with the Kuki Naga residing in eastern Assam, India and extending into northern Myanmar (where they are known as the Chin). See image #2.

It also resembles a dao from the Kabui Naga (residing near Manipur, Assam, India). See image #3.

However, the pole haft does not look like any sword dao I've seen from any Naga tribe in Assam. Rather, it looks agricultural in purpose (although many SE Asia tools double as weapons). Could the blade have been remounted?

I'll post more pictures of the item when it arrives!

What do you think?


Dave A.

Tim Simmons
22nd November 2015, 09:17 PM
I do not think this is Naga. I believe these are from further south and east possibly by quite a long way. They are in the archive I think.

Sajen
23rd November 2015, 09:09 PM
Hello Dave,

it is correct described from Auctions Imperial. It's a mak from Cambodia, Khmer IMVHO.

Regards,
Detlef

Royston
23rd November 2015, 09:47 PM
This is a typical Kuki.
Yours is a mak.
Regards
Roy