Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2024, 06:46 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2024, 03:52 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2024, 05:50 AM
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Alan, Thank you for showing another wonderful...
Alan, Thank you for showing another wonderful example of this early form of Moro kris! The similarities with the Bugis keris shown at the top of this thread are again obvious. Yours also shows a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2024, 05:45 AM
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Kai, the apparent diameters are a little...
Kai, the apparent diameters are a little misleading because of the different degrees to which I cropped the pictures (and thus the magnification is slightly different). Eyeballing the pictures shown...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th April 2024, 01:28 PM
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David and Detlef,
Geometry tells us that the...
David and Detlef,
Geometry tells us that the only cross-section that produces a uniform width when viewed from several angles is a circle (or a circular object with many small facets). I believe...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 08:29 PM
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More X-rays of the hilt
Here are the views obtained with rotation of the long axis of the sword. They show that tang width at various points along the hilt shows slight narrowing with progressive rotation from horizontal...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 08:03 PM
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X-ray of hilt
As promised, here are the X-rays of the hilt. The various features visible on the X-ray are shown in the picture below, which was taken mainly to visualize the tang. The tang seems quite long...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2024, 05:35 PM
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David and Detlef,
You are both much more...
David and Detlef,
You are both much more knowledgeable about keris than I am. Thank you for your thoughts. However, neither of you commented on the presence of a round tang versus a flat or...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2024, 03:05 PM
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David, the issue of greneng, or the absence of...
David, the issue of greneng, or the absence of such, is an interesting one. The example shown here by Lief has some greneng, still visible but seriously worn down. Detlef's example similarly shows...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2024, 02:22 PM
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Examination of the tang with X-rays
Today I visited a veterinarian friend who has an X-ray machine. By cranking the machine up to 90kV and 0.5 mA I was able to get some very respectable views of the tang through the silver wrap on the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th April 2024, 08:24 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st March 2024, 05:58 AM
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Thanks for all your comments so far.
I don't...
Thanks for all your comments so far.
I don't know whether early Malay kris differed from early Moro kris. I suspect they were fairly similar, as it has been postulated that the Filipino kris may...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2024, 01:39 AM
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Hi Detlef.
Yes, the sampir could be a later...
Hi Detlef.
Yes, the sampir could be a later replacement and the horn spacer may have been used to fit the sampir more snugly. There is also evidence of an old band around the mid-scabbard that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th March 2024, 10:06 AM
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A very, very old Moro kris
This was a recent purchase online from a British auction house.
It is obviously an archaic Moro kris, with the blade probably being older than the fittings. A very notable feature of the blade is...
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