Curved Dagger (Khanjar) with Ram-Head Pommel

India

17th/18th century

Medium

Watered steel inlaid with gold and silver in the kuftgari technique

Classification

Armor

Dimensions

28.6 × 5.7 × 2.9 cm (11 1/4 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)

Culture

India

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Arms and armour
• People
• 1600s
• India
• Brown