Balinese spearhead with scabbard
With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.
Acehnese peudeueng
With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.
A fine Philippine bolo
The blade inlaid with brass, complete with a horn scabbard with pierced decoration.
A Karo Batak kalasan sword
An almost textbook example of a silver-plated kalasan.
Toba Batak sword
With cast-bronze guarding figure hilt.
Igorot headhunter javelin
With exceptionally wide blade, forged with a hardened leading edge.
Sikin panjang with golden crown
In original condition and period finish. Some losses, no repairs.
Balinese keris
A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.
Javanese gold overlaid spear blade
Once part of a trisula, made on Java in the 17th century.
Wood hilted dahmjaun
With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.
Good Vietnamese dagger
An unusually ornate version of what is normally a very simple weapon.
Vietnamese knife
A simple early 20th-century fighting dagger with ribbed grip.
An Acehnese rencong
A peculiar form of dagger found on the northern part of the island of Sumatra.
An Indonesian blunderbuss
Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.
A rare kudi trantang
A rare variation of one of the rarest forms of Indonesian arms.
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt
An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.
A Palembang sword with British blade
With finely carved horn hilt, silver mounts and reshaped European blade.
French sword for the King of Siam
With a Parisian blade carrying the royal emblem of King Rama IV.
A fine Kayan mandau
With less common wooden hilt and elaborately inlaid blade in brass, copper and silver.
A Kenyah mandau
The famous sidearm of the headhunters of Borneo.
A rare Burmese spear
A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.
A fine south Nias telögu
With rare pale buffalo horn hilt with gold alloy inlays.
Brass mounted Thai dáap
A charming and somewhat unusual example of a Thai dáap (ดาบ).
Plain mounted Mindan dha
Plain when sheathed, unsheathing reveals a rather nice silver overlaid blade.
Early silver Burmese dha
With elaborate silver overlaid blade and inlaid iron hilt.
Burmese silver overlaid dha
On a sturdy, user-grade blade with temper line.
A Kenyah Dayak mandau sword
The sword and everyday tool of the headhunters of Borneo.
Tribal Kachin dha
A typical example with a nice forge folded blade with differential heat treatment.
Vietnamese crook handled cane
With a finely crafted silver handle with dragons and squirrels, mounted on a malacca cane.
A Vietnamese Christian cross
Constructed out of dense hardwood and with fine mother-of-pearl inlays in the Vietnamese fashion.
Parang nabur with báitóng hilt
These sabers from Kalimantan exhibit a mix of European, Islamic, and local styles.
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun
Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.
A Vietnamese matchlock musket
Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.
Heavy Sino-Vietnamese dagger
With a very thick and heavy blade and nicely worked brass mounts.
Box of Javanese arrows
Used in a target archery sport that was originally practiced in the Keraton.
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao
Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.
Fine Chinese Shan dha
Entirely clad in silver and with a differentially heat treated blade.
A Mindan / Yamethin dha
With fine overlaid blade this area was known for.
Large Shan dha
With silver-clad scabbard executed in their typical style.
Mindan dha with agate pommel
Its blade portraying the story of one of the previous lives of Guatama Buddha.
Burmese dha dated 1928
A nice example that can serve as a benchmark to help date others.
Sino-Vietnamese fighting knife
A Chinese style fighting knife probably made in Yunnan or Vietnam.
Balinese keris with stones in gold
Undulating bilah blade of eleven luk.
A Sumbawa Kabeala
With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.
Vietnamese officer gươm
With staghorn grip finely carved with plum blossoms.
Very fine ceremonial gươm
An outstanding example with very fine silver and moth-of-pearl work.
Fine Burmese dha hmyaung
With intricately carved ivory hilt depicting a demon on a horse.
Vietnamese officer's gươm
Of a late 19th century type with a silver-backed hardwood grip.
Ceremonial gươm truòng
Of an all-wooden construction, simulating a sheathed long saber.