Executioner's Keris For Comment

Newsteel · 2nd April 2008, 04:05 AM

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Lew,
Taking the possibilities, the hilt to me looks more like a handle for parang jenguk/ginah (a sickle like blade) from Kelantan northern Malaysia. I haven't record any real old photos having such hilt for a keris panjang. Maybe that tapak kuda floral carved type hilt form is for aesthetic reasons, but it could be as functionally for execution.

I doubt if that little dot of hole could hold enough cotton to clean the blood from the blade and cover the opening from the pierce as said.

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2nd April 2008, 04:05 AM	#12
Newsteel Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 132	We are here to learn. Lew, Taking the possibilities, the hilt to me looks more like a handle for parang jenguk/ginah (a sickle like blade) from Kelantan northern Malaysia. I haven't record any real old photos having such hilt for a keris panjang. Maybe that tapak kuda floral carved type hilt form is for aesthetic reasons, but it could be as functionally for execution. I doubt if that little dot of hole could hold enough cotton to clean the blood from the blade and cover the opening from the pierce as said.