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Sajen · 2nd June 2015, 03:46 PM

I was able to obtain two daos from Arunachal Pradesh. In this federal state of India living approx. 100 ethnic groups and nearly all have daos as their weapon and I think that it will be very difficult to determine the exact origin of this two dao. It was stated in other threads that this are Naga daos but when I read correct you can say only about one of this ethnic groups from Arunachal Pradesh that they belong to the Naga "family".
For Arunachal Pradesh see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh
One of the both seems to be nearly unused while the other one shows a lot of use. Here the both side by side.
A great thank and compliment to Robert for the excellent pictures from the both swords.

2nd June 2015, 03:46 PM	#1
Sajen Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Germany, Dortmund Posts: 8,498	Two dao from Arunachal Pradesh I was able to obtain two daos from Arunachal Pradesh. In this federal state of India living approx. 100 ethnic groups and nearly all have daos as their weapon and I think that it will be very difficult to determine the exact origin of this two dao. It was stated in other threads that this are Naga daos but when I read correct you can say only about one of this ethnic groups from Arunachal Pradesh that they belong to the Naga "family". For Arunachal Pradesh see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh One of the both seems to be nearly unused while the other one shows a lot of use. Here the both side by side. A great thank and compliment to Robert for the excellent pictures from the both swords. Attached Images Last edited by Sajen; 2nd June 2015 at 04:26 PM.