Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2005, 04:48 PM
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Honestly New Keris
All the new keris posted on this thread seem to be good ones to me. At least they are not trying to look old. I say that they are honest keris because they have the tungkakan where the edge of the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2005, 04:28 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 43,020
Putut Kembar
The photos of the Putut keris were all very informative and only the baby Pututs under the tree are definitely new and cringe worthy as the tree is the Golkar Party's symbol. Golkar was Suharto's...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th April 2005, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 87
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The wood of this keris is called Timoho and the...
The wood of this keris is called Timoho and the type of Timoho is Timaha Pelet Ceplok Banteng or Belang Sapi, meaning Timoho wood with stains like the markings on a Banteng or a Cow, although in Bali...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2005, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 40,074
Thank you Marto Suwignyo for explaining some...
Thank you Marto Suwignyo for explaining some cultural background to the keris.
I believe that the keris was only passingly mentioned by the writer in Zeng He's who did not even know the name of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2005, 08:33 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 240,066
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2005, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 20,411
Iron for Keris
The historian Denis Lombard in his books Nusa Jawa Silang Budaya puts forward the theory that the Java keris is small because of the lack of iron in Java. However there has been an experiment...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2005, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 40,074
Tom Hyle wrote: k(e)ris seems to have been in...
Tom Hyle wrote: k(e)ris seems to have been in former times a weapon on Java; now it (at least primarily) is not, and this is the situation that has obtained for some time.
In Javanese legend...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2005, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 20,411
Thank you Jens, I have never heard of Robert...
Thank you Jens, I have never heard of Robert Elgood. Does the picture of the dagger have a ganja? Does the blade bow forward? Was the temple built in 1610? Was the keris there an influence from Java...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2005, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 40,074
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 10:39 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 240,066
I think there is evidence that meteorite pamor...
I think there is evidence that meteorite pamor was used before the Prambanan meteorite was taken into the Keraton Surakarta as there is evidence of the trading of meteorite before the Prambanan...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 20,411
Iron and Java Keris
[QUOTE=Jens Nordlunde]
So now we have an export of blades and ingots to the west, but what about to the east? We know, from stone sculptures, that kerises were used in the south of India; did...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 08:13 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 29,599
Oldest keris in the Kraton?
If the covering is copper it is unusual. As that the keris was the oldest and most precious in the gedong pusaka of the keraton, hm, nice story but unlikely to be true. As the keris has two sogokan...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 25,891
If The Keris Wants You Vinny
Vinny, I go to and fro Indonesia and the UK and always bring at least one keris with me but not in my hand luggage. Sometimes I remember to explain beforehand that I have my pusaka but sometimes I...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 40,074
Vinny's Pamor
Vinny's keris seems to be a tilam upih or a brojol (altough most brojol have fatter blades) with a beras wutah or maybe pulo tirto pamor. Both pamor have similar esoteric value. As keris are never...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 03:38 PM
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Replies: 92
Views: 75,859
Looking After keris
Captain Smash' keris from Bali looks very nice. It is a Bali keris like a Javanese keris of the dapur pasopati. The engraving and the carving is intended to be inlaid and wrapped with gold and might...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2005, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 29,599
the Knaud Keris
Helo everyone, I'm new in this forum -realy happy to see the famous Knaud keris. It seems that this keris is a Jalak Sangu Tumpeng keris which has been given sinarasah emas with the date depicted in...
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