Hi Detlef and Jose,
Thanks for your input.
Actually I was more curious on opinions on the blade than on the dress.
The dress is made for the keris blade. I can force down the blade more into it
but all horn and ivory scabbards shrink a bit here in Scandinavia so I prefer not to.
As Detlef wrote silver, as well as brass and suassa, is quite usual on Batak weapons.
Here is a reference picture from Leiden of a resembling keris. The Batak culture wasn't very closed.
But usually if they wore keris it was from other cultures, like the Minang Bahari,
not locally pimped like mine or the one in Leiden. And Jose is correct, they didn't make keris themeselves.
Any more opinions on the blade?
Michael
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