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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Netherlands
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Welcome to the forum klewang!
I looked in the book of van Zonneveld. There you can find a description of the "chunderik" or "chundrik": Chunderik: "The name given to weapons of widely differing forms. For instance: a long sabre, a klewang or a small dagger the blade and hilt of which are forged from one piece and thus related to the so-called keris majapahit. The "chunderik" may sometimes serve as the point of a spear." I wouldn't call your sword a "golok" either. Although all my indonesian friends call everything a "golok", whenever you can say in dutch "kapmes". I would just call it some kind of little Javanese sword. But I think yours is no piece used as working tool for "een paar boompjes om te hakken" , but used as some kind of status symbol.vriendelijke groet, Maurice |
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