Subject: ahadi 'single' heavy cavalryman
Culture: Mughal
Setting: Great Mughal Empire, Hindustan/Deccan late 16th-early 18thc
Object: chilanum dagger
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Dagger
Steel, nephrite, gold, rubies
India,
Mughal period,
about 1700"
* Higgins Armory Museum > Scimitars to Samurai: Arms and Armor around the World
"Chilanum (dagger), late 1500s-early 1600s
Deccan (southern India)
Weight: 1 lb." ...
