Lew Waldman's Ethnographic Arms & Armour Collection Archive


1083 - Unmounted Wavy Keris Blade with Small Beast Figure at the Base

This naked wavy (9 luk) keris blade lacks its ganja (base) and is 14 inches (36 cm) long from where the tang inserts. There is a small figure of a beast sculpted at the base of a blade with a layered pamor showing bright iron and dark matte gray surfaces. Overall length with the tang is just under 16 inches (41 cm) and the blade weighs about 5 ounces (144 grams).


 



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