Silver Keris - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

30th August 2017, 12:52 PM

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Roland_M

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Quote:

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

Roland, it has been a fairly common practice for a very long time to add a figure at the gandhik of a keris, after that keris has been in use for an even longer time.

Thank you for your illustrative explanation, as always impressive illuminating for me.

So if the Ganesha was added later to the blade, it was done in a very skillfull way.

Roland

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