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Originally Posted by adamb
Thank you Alan, for this insight.
It strikes me that an apparent fault in the process of blade manufacture is interpreted as a hallmark of quality and esteem by present-day Bugis-Makasar people, or at least the ones I've talked to about this feature in a particular part of South Sulawesi. I wonder what that could mean; and I wonder, among other things, how far back in time this belief about the symbolic importance of this feature goes.
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There are many people in the keris world who would consider this obvious forging flaw to be "complong" and a talismanic feature that increases the value of the keris. Is it the "Hand of God" or simply incompetent forging skills? Believe goes a long way in the keris world.