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Hi, this is the other Palembang keris I bought at a flee markt. Also a nice one I think. Less smooth as the other one, but as i see it still a very good quality blade. It has some remnants of kinatah on top of the ganja. The grip is a bit less robust and the wood is of a lesser quality wood. A weird thing, which I have never seen before, is that the scabbard is made of two parts but split in the middle, not on the sides. So there is a left and a right part, instead of front and back. Can't imagine that this wasn't covered with a pendok.
Is this also a Palembang blade or from another area incorporated in a Palembang dress? Any thoughts or comments on this piece? The total length of the keris is 53 cm, the blade without peksi is 40 cm. Last edited by PeterP; 22nd January 2024 at 02:48 PM. Reason: forgot something |
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I recently parted with a Bugis style keris that had the same method of gandar construction. It was the only one I had ever seen --- until I saw the picture of this one.
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This is a pretty common way of construction of scabbards for northern Melayu keris coteng.
Also typical for western Sumatran Sewar - thus, this idea has been around. Very unusual for Palembang or all of southern Sumatra though. Regards, Kai |
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I also have one. Now you can say you have seen two !
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Thanks GIO.
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A panjang with the same gandar construction.
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It is interesting the way these are showing up. I have only ever had one in my hands & had never seen another.
Now, measure that against how many keris I have had possession of & have seen. By about age 30 I had +/- 3000 keris in various states of repair, at age 30 I had 18 years experience with keris. By around age 45 I had a lot less keris, I began getting rid of lesser keris as I began to understand the "quality" concept, & Empu Suparman was the single biggest influence in this. However, most of the keris I have seen, owned, handled have been Javanese & Balinese. Probably this way of making a gandar might be something that is limited to Sumatera & the Peninsula, to my mind this means that historically these places did not know about the segrek, the tool with reverse teeth that is used to make a gandar with no joints. |
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