The Pakayun (as it is called among Malay speaking Muruts) or Parapat (as in Murut language)[1] or Pelepet / Felepet (by the Lun Bawang / Lundayeh people)[2] is a sword very characteristic of the Murut people originating from Borneo.[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.
