Request for comments and insights on a Keris Madura

[David]

Here is an alternative take on formal Madurese dress from my collection. I believe this hilt depicts the same subject/figure.

[A. G. Maisey]

In Jawa we call that style of wrongko "kacir", which means something that is thin/spindly, sticking up. It is a legitimate Madura & East Jawa form, but sometimes people will reshape a broken ladrangan form into this kacir form, expecially if the wood is a prized type of material.