[Spunjer]

so, what's your definition of old? as you said of my kris:

Spunjer's kris is a suspect because of the ivory head of the handle-- that is if it's really an ivory.

ok, so to you it's a suspect at first because ivory was used but after being refuted you decided to change your tune and back your statement up with:

the use of ivory in mindanaoan weaponry is recent not ancient-- probably when the Europeans occupied Borneo in late 1800's.

and this:

I meant to say photographs of old krises. Ivory handles are mostly 19th century

so are you saying that late 1800 krises as recent? so again, how definitive are you that these alleged pictures you saw from smithsonian were old? again, are there tell tale signs that these were "old"? we would like to know this new methodology of aging these weapons.

turko. vikingo.
lol, that's funny-o.