Alan, thank You for Your very interesting response.
May I ask, was impossible to read it because of the language itself, or because of terminology? I can imagine, You have tryed 25 years ago all possible, and with every year there are less and less people with knowledge about old culture.
(I have heard, the older dalangs are still able to read the ancient language. But of course, it is a very naive thought.)
Tatyana, I think the same about the dresses. But sometimes it seems to me, there is an older stile, the ornamental lines are smaller and somehow very graceful curved. One of such keris is on de Vries catalogue, fairly in the middle with the black gandar and kekandikan. (Of course it is even not an opinion.)
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