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I would opine the hilt came from Selayar island or Buton....
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Interesting suggestion - could you please post any pics of resembling hilts? TIA!
I'm with Alan that the hilt does have some age - maybe not antique but around WW2 or possibly first half of 20th c. sounds good to me.
The carving is pretty rough. I guess this is a village/DIY example which will be very tough to place unless we find a provenanced example with similar features: especially the rounded/curved gestalt seems noteworthy. Then again, this might just have been a shortcut...
Regards,
Kai