Rob, I don't know what he's doing.
He might be praying. He might just be in a pensive pose. He's certainly not holding anything.
The major characteristic of this hilt is that it is craft work, it is not the product of a skilled carver, but something that an unskilled person has made to what I would call "village standard". It is definitely a keris hilt, not a pelecok handle.
What is the band around his head?
I'm not playing games here. I don't know what I'm looking at except that it is a keris hilt. From where, by whom, for what reason, I know not.
I acquired it in Jawa, but that does not necessarily mean it originated there, although that is probable.
As I said:- material for guesses--- but good ones.
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