Spear, qiang, with long steel blade comprising two main parts. The upper part is an arrow-like pointed blade with sligthly median ridge and two in-curving hooks. The lower part has a quadrilateral top with coin-shaped openwork flanked by two barbs connecting down to a straight blade with slightly median ridge. The whole blade emerges from the mouth of a brass dragon head. Below the dragon head is a hexagonal brass guard, mounted onto a wooden shaft with three brass rings.
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