Dhankuta, A small hillstate village located eastern part of Nepal can reach about 12 hours drive from by bus from the capital Kathmandu. The location is very lovely by by its natural heritage. Similary the place is also famous because of the various tribes of people live that make the place more rich by cultural and traditional point of view. Dhankuta is very famous for its craftmanship for 100s of years where highly qualified black smith family has been living from their ancient time. Khukuri making profession is being their family business for them. Khukuries made in Dhankuta has own speciality which is always different than Khukuri made in any other part of country.
A DhanKute khukuri is basically a simple working cum decorative knife but with a fancy scabbard that has Nepalese national symbols overlaid on its front panel. The skilled craftsmen craft special scabbard out of buffalo horn and Indian rosewood for the kukri blade and displays various national monograms made from expensive metallic sheets like Brass or White metal or even Silver sometimes such as king’s crown (Shree-pech), national bird (Danfe), national flower (Laligurans), national fish (Aasla), Gurkha insignia (khukuri cross), sign of a temple (Pashupati chaana), the holy sword (Trishul) etc. The basic objective is to compose the khukuri to represent Nepal and her persona. The glory, sovereignty, character, culture and people of Nepal is tried to captured in this unique work of art by the Dhankutes.
This is beautiful Dhankute Horn Khukuri which has beautiful artistic on the middle part of the blade. The high experience artist has shown all his skill and tallent making this blade. Water Buffalo horn which is used for scabbard, and Razor sharp this Beautiful Khkuri could be a beautiful gift or a symbol of beautiful Khukuri from Nepal.
Overall length : 10 inches.
Material Used : Highly Graded Carbon Steel (car & jeep leaf spring, 5160)for blade. Water buffalo horn , white metal and Brass for Scabbard and handle and “Laha” (Nepali Traditional Glue).
Weight : 400 Gram
Complementary : Traditional Nepalese Hat, Gurkha Batch and Khukuri information Paper
Place of Origin : Dharan (Eastern part of Nepal).