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Old 28th January 2010, 08:35 PM   #8
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Makes a picture of this historical person.
Teuku Umar (born in 1854, Meulaboh; died February 11, 1899) is a Pahlawan Nasional Indonesia (National Hero of Indonesia). He led a guerrilla campaign in Aceh during the period of the Dutch occupation. He fell when Dutch troops launched a sudden attack in Meulaboh. His body was buried in the Mugo area. After Teuku Umar's death, his wife Cut Nyak Dhien continued to led guerillas against the Dutch.

adding some info from Wikipedia.

But back to the gayo keris.
A few years back there was an exhibition in Delft with very nice keris.
Sad enough there was no catalogue, and I did not take any pictures.
Among them several gayo keris. with main features being :
- very simple blades (pamorless),
- huge ivory hilts.
- Ganja's protruding out of their scabbards
- and indeed the scabbards being dressed in silver and suasa with the typical faceted ball shaped scabbard end.

As for the RMV keris.
Hilt seems like the right gayo style
wrangka seems right, be it covered in gold :-)
and the bottom of the scabbard is missing its decoration. If this scabbard had some kind of golden ball shaped decoration I think all would not doubt and call it a gayo keris.
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