Higgins Armory Museum to exhibit Eastern weaponry

The Higgins Armory Museum's Special Exhibitions Gallery will glitter this fall with an exhibition of some fifty jeweled weapons from 18th and 19th-century Middle East, India, Persia and Eastern Europe. Arms of the East: Jeweled Weapons of Status and Rank opens on Friday, November 11. A special public reception with ethnic foods and entertainment will take place on Thursday, November 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. Arms of the East consists of swords, daggers and firearms from a private collection never before shown in public. These highly ornamented objects, which include rock crystal and jade hilts, inlays of precious stones and overlays of gold, silver, and enameling, are believed to have belonged to nobility of various Eastern cultures. Arms of the East will be on display through July 2, 1995.

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