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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
To summarise:- in my opinion, this keris in its entirety is a keris of the Bugis people, I am not able to defend an opinion that might place the geographic origin of the blade of this complete keris in any specific geographic location. Further, based upon my own field research & my own experience, I am not prepared to name with confidence the geographic locations that contributed the parts other than the blade to this keris as a complete entity. Any opinion I might express in respect of this keris is based upon the opinions of other people.
To compress this into a few words:- I do not know.
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Thanks Alan, i appreciate your response and will add, as i believe i have already stated, that i don't really know either. But i am still confused by you opinion that this is the product of the Bugis people because i do see this hilt form, with it's narrow width, to be much more common to Minangkabau people than Bugis. The blade remains a bit of a mystery to me, but as is often the case with the keris i can often tell what something it NOT even when i am still not sure what is actually IS.
And this blade does not display Bugis elements to me either.
Of course, with the above view images it is clear to me that this sheath has not been made for this blade, nor has there been any real attempt to properly fit it, so it is very possible that all these parts have completely different origins and that it can't really be said that it is of ANY particular people. Could it be a dealer special? Who knows? We can probably leave it at that.