Mandau pommel representation?

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Originally Posted by migueldiaz

Thanks for the comments, Arjan. And all of your points are well taken!

On another matter, me and my wife plan to go to Spain, perhaps around September. And we plan to visit the Leiden museum to check out the southeast Asian items there. Do they allow photographing of the display?

Also, would there be other Dutch museums aside from Leiden where a good collection of Philippine or Bornean and Indonesian artifacts can be seen?

Thanks in advance and best wishes!

I believe that you are free to take pics in the museum.

You should see the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam also , but keep in mind that both museums have only highlights in their permanent exebition.
certainly worth to see, but to give an "Mandau example" Leiden show 1 mandau in their permanent exebition and thats not even the most attractive one ( from around 1940 or so and a gift to Tom Harrisson)

The whole exebition however gives a good idea of the total ethnograhpical treasures in Indonesia.

For Phillippine stuff you will not find much, its better to visit the Spanish museums for that.

here the sites: www.tropenmuseum.nl
www.rmv.nl


another small but nice museum is Nusantara in the very nice City of Delft here the site http://www.nusantara-delft.nl/en