Naga dao

[blacklacrau]

Hi
I´m new on this. I bought this piece a months ago. Can anyone give me some information about, history,age...authenticity :confused:
Thanks
Best regards

[Tim Simmons]

How heavy, thick is the blade? It is difficult to see the cutting edge from your picture with so much surface rust to be confident about age, I susspect pre ww2. If it is a nice cutting type of blade then I can see nothing a miss about it. Some people say that if it has black hair decoration then it is older than the ones with red hair, personally I do not believe this. Yours certainly has the appearance of some age hopefully it is a good blade. They are still in use in some parts. I have a few picture of {Burma} Naga with working doa I will post.

This is helpful.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=165&highlight=naga+weapons

The quality of the blade may mark it out as a weapon or more modern festival piece.

[blacklacrau]

New photos from the naga dao a bit more clean of rust.
it seems me that he has some kind of metal in the iron, a type of golden metal but is not copper. A reinforcement??

the weight is 550g all piece and is 3 mm thickness

i hope that it was useful

best regards

[RobT]

Hi Blacklacrau,
P. S. Rawson in The Indian Sword on pg 58 lists your piece as one of the ceremonial and obsolete dao of milemnok descent of the Ang people. Congratulations, I think you have a very rare piece.
Sincerely,
RobT

[blacklacrau]

Hi Blacklacrau,
P. S. Rawson in The Indian Sword on pg 58 lists your piece as one of the ceremonial and obsolete dao of milemnok descent of the Ang people. Congratulations, I think you have a very rare piece.
Sincerely,
RobT

I do not know the book can i get a copy of this page?

[Battara]

I also believe that this is a chieftain's piece.

[RobT]

Hi Blackiacrau,
I have the book but no scanner. Perhaps someone on the forum with both could make a scan and email it to you. The book was published in 1969 by Arco Publishing Company, 219 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10003. The copyright was 1968 by P.S. Rawson. Arco catalogue number 668-01830-5. Library of Congress number 69-11144. It's a good book to get if you can.
Sincerely,
RobT