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Discusses and depicts khukuris, and their ancestors:
p. 39..."The boomerang shape is perpetuated in the dreaded kukkri or Gurkha Sword-knife, now used...for hand to hand fighting."
P. 217 footnote1 "The huge falchion, an exaggeration of the Kukkri, may be seen in the British Museum..."
p. 237..."The inside edge characteristics...[are] thoroughly well developed in the formidable Kora or Kukkri of the Gurkha or Nepaulese mountaineers, whose edge swells out to a half-moon."
p. 265..."The other, which the owner calls a 'Kopis,' [is] also twenty-one inches long, and two inches and a half in width, has a broad back and a wedge [cross] section. The cutting part is [the]inside [arc], and the whole contour remarkably resembles the Kukkri or Korah of Nepaul, and in a less degree, the Albanian Yataghan or Kabyle 'Flissa.' The Kopis, however, has a hook handle as if for suspension; and there is a swelling in the inside fo the grip."
The english is a bit antiquated, as he published it in 1884.
Keith
En Ferro Veritas
p. 39..."The boomerang shape is perpetuated in the dreaded kukkri or Gurkha Sword-knife, now used...for hand to hand fighting."
P. 217 footnote1 "The huge falchion, an exaggeration of the Kukkri, may be seen in the British Museum..."
p. 237..."The inside edge characteristics...[are] thoroughly well developed in the formidable Kora or Kukkri of the Gurkha or Nepaulese mountaineers, whose edge swells out to a half-moon."
p. 265..."The other, which the owner calls a 'Kopis,' [is] also twenty-one inches long, and two inches and a half in width, has a broad back and a wedge [cross] section. The cutting part is [the]inside [arc], and the whole contour remarkably resembles the Kukkri or Korah of Nepaul, and in a less degree, the Albanian Yataghan or Kabyle 'Flissa.' The Kopis, however, has a hook handle as if for suspension; and there is a swelling in the inside fo the grip."
The english is a bit antiquated, as he published it in 1884.
Keith
En Ferro Veritas
