ThePakayun(as it is called among Malay speaking Muruts) orParapat(as inMurut language)[1]orPelepet/Felepet(by theLun Bawang/ Lundayeh people)[2]is a sword very characteristic of theMurut peopleoriginating fromBorneo.[3]
The Pakayun is a Sabre sword with a light curved blade and has a curious forked pommel.[4]The blade is of almost uniform diameter throughout with its back shorter than the edge, so that there is a short slope at the tip of the blade.[5]
^"American Anthropological Association, Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.), American Ethnological Society".American Anthropologist: Volume 4.American Anthropological Association. 1902. p. 557.OCLC51205515.
^George Cameron Stone (2013).A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: In All Countries and in All Times.Dover Publications. p. 479.ISBN978-04-861-3129-0.
^Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1901).Journal - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 31.Dover Publications. p. 225.ISSN0025-1496.
