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15th August 2014, 08:16 PM
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Here the picture from the above mentioned book. Please understand me correct, I don't will claim that there are original old/antique examples of this sort of "keris", I don't know when this example was collected and how it find it's way in the museum collection.
The description says: " A flamboyant kris from Borneo. The hilt is fitted with a bird's beak; the sheath is decorated with carabao teeth and goat's hair." |
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15th August 2014, 08:26 PM
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Tropen Museum in Amsterdam, also have one in the basement. The conservator in that time told me, that it was a tourist class keris from Borneo/Kalimantan. And that i should not buy one(that was on a vending site on that time), that he have in in collection to show people differences in tourist keris.
regards PS Edward Frey book, The kris mystic weapon of the Malay world. shows one on pag 49 picture 27a |
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15th August 2014, 08:47 PM
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15th August 2014, 08:51 PM
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 PS, but i have to say, that even these and the other type of tourist class keris, are getting older by the day. And if we take into consideration that some types were being made or put together( some of them have really old blades inside of the crappy sheaths!!) +1890 for Dutch Knil soldiers and others to bring home to the family after time in the Dutch-Indies to be hanged above the chimney. Just saying that it totally depend on the collector if its interesting or not, some could be or in the future, IMO. |
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