I picked up the kris below in Mindanao from a Muslim (Maranao) trader about a year ago.
I think it's an example of the fusion between two ethnic groups. My theory is that somehow a Visayan who settled in Mindanao ended up with the kris, re-hilted it using their traditional pommel design, and then used it for his everyday 'carry'.
As a remote analogy, it's probably somewhat like WW2 Germans in Russia using the much respected T-34s.
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