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Sword
Tibetan, 19th–early 20th century
Iron, gold, copper, wood, leather, textile, ray skin, yak hair
Sword L. overall in scabbard 35½ in. (90.2 cm), L. of blade 29 in. (73.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift,
2003 (2003.230.1–.3a–d)
cat. no. 124

Sword from Set of Saddle, Tack, and Sword

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