DOEHOENG KASOENDAN (A Soenda Perspective)

[Jean]

This piece may be a javanese copy of a tajong hilt, see the hatched decoration especially.

[David]

Originally Posted by Jean

This piece may be a javanese copy of a tajong hilt, see the hatched decoration especially.

Possibly. I honestly cannot judge from this one photograph. But even if made in Java to would not have been made for a Javanese keris and i am sure you agree that it is stylistically incorrect for this ensemble. While some culturally mixed keris ensembles may well have some legitimacy in ethnographic usage i would have a hard time seeing this mix of Javanese and Peninsula styles finding social acceptability in either culture.