Variety of art on a sword hilt Aceh

in #story8 years ago (edited)

The sword is a weapon often used by everyone for many things, especially war. In Aceh people known to many of the weapons used to wage war. Aceh suffered tremendous war with the Netherlands since 1873-1945

Weapons such as: Spear, Tumpang Jeungki (The term for a kind of long knife blade and handle of the carved horn), Rencong, Siwah, Cek Yan and much more.
Below I will show a very beautiful art created by the people of Aceh on the butt of the weapon used to fight.


variety of floral carved on the hilt of a sword made of buffalo horn females


Seen from above the shape of flowers carved


It appears from the bottom which is also filled with beautiful floral motif