Sikin with fine laminated blade and gold inlay

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decorations which are incompatible due to social conventions

Dear Kai,

Exactly what I mean. there are a lot of variations, but there is some pattern that does not follow our greedy logic of / More money / more gold / more ivory etc...
Sounds as a logical explanation that there where rules/adat about decorations.
I wonder if such detailled differences are descibed somewhere ?

Best regards,
Willem