Crowns on Aceh weapons revisited - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

14th April 2016, 12:19 AM

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Battara

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Originally Posted by Sajen

I am not sure that pieces like this are only reserved for royalty?

I think that wealthy people also could have owned thus a piece but frankly I don't know it exactly.
Detlef

A good question Detlef.

If I remember right, only nobility were allowed to have the gold crowns on their weaponry. This is restricted to the former sultanate of Aceh where these originate.

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