Bugis Keris

[Gustav]

A couple of recently carved examples, two woodden ones and an ivory one, all acurately carved, but stiff compared to the old wooden hilts. The ivory one is quite good work, the angle of the head to body is right, but the head noticeably to short - again possibly the limitation of the material size. I think, I must not explain further what I mean with bulging, or perhaps better, protruding eyes.

The last picture is the only one available of a Pipit Teleng hilt on a Keris Malela blade. As the blade could possibly be antique, the same could go for hilt. One can judge only the "teleng" angle of the head from that picture, but it's a good one.