Rugi from Alor for comment

[Gavin Nugent]

Hi Detlef,

All part of the game the agree and disagree. Some people like Audi, I still think the Lexus is better for the money....well maybe not on wet European roads

Respectfully I disagree with the dirt covered items in the images being old. The thick covering of dirt and odd looking bristle like hair are my first concerns.

A passage associated with the subject.

"Wooden sculpture can be buried in soil, tied to an embankment, and thrown into a fast flowing river, broken, fed to insects, smoked, stained, dyed, burnt, waxed, oiled, polished, painted or even given to the dog to play with. Statues that have been buried are easy to spot, as soil will have penetrated into every hole and crevice, sculpture that has been knocking up and down in a river for a few months will look bleached, and contain sand and small pebbles. The last two methods are very popular with fake Dayak material."

Gav

[Sajen]

Here a horn handle from one of my badiks in comparison with the horn handle from one of the shown suriks. Artificially aged??

[Sajen]

Here the handle from my kampilan with the remains of the attached hair in comparison with one of the surik handles with the apparently same kind of hair, most proable goats hair. Odd looking? Maybe! But seems to be normal. Or is my kampilan a fake as well?

[Sajen]

And here at last a close up of the braided sheath from one of the suriks and the cut down european blade of the same surik. From where they have taken this old european blade to built up this "faked" surik?