the first of wood in three parts secured together by a leather strap and bindings, the pommel, cantle and protruding ends fore and aft with gilt lacquered decoration (old wear) and mounted with iron borders pierced and gilt with running foliage, the lower border at the cantle arched and inhabited by a pair of dragons, the pommel with silver arched lower border en suite; the second of leather with ribbed white-metal mounts carrying an iron bit and leather reigns; the third each of iron, chiselled at the arched top with cloud scrolls and pierced for leathers, and with integral recessed ovoidal foot-plate; the first: 56.5 cm long (4)

See Donald J. LaRocca, Warriors Of The Himalayas, 2006, pp. 242-245, nos. 126-131.