Rentjong: What area???

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Good pictures made by Lt Neeb and published in the book by Lt Kempees about the "excursion" as it was called in those days to the Gayo, Batak and Alas countries by Lt-Col Van Daalen (later General and commander of the Dutch East Indies Army-KNIL).

In that case Batak would have been the Karo Batak.

If you look at weapons like the lopah petawaran it is (almost) impossible to find if a weapon is Aceh, Gayo or Batak. The styles must have influenced each other very much.

The same goes for the rencong of Aceh and Gayo - sometimes it is clear but often not.....

Regards, Erik

Originally Posted by Maurice

Gentlemen,

Nice addition to mention is that I found some old images where gayo people have rentjongs (not this type as discussed here in this thread) worn different ways... The normal way and "upside down"...

Maurice