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22nd April 2013, 12:00 PM
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Korambi?
Interesting: this leech(?) looks very much like a korambi!!
Actually, I think it is a korambi. I don't recall, I have ever seen it before on a Borneo swordhilt. |
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22nd April 2013, 12:03 PM
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Albert you have great eyes....that surely does look like a korambi!
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22nd April 2013, 12:10 PM
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Quite unusual, indeed.
However, if it is a korambi then it is an additional indicator of a later date of the hilt. Michael |
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22nd April 2013, 12:52 PM
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Yes Albert,
looks like a korambi indeed. However I think it's a coincedence that it's looking like a korambi, as there are more like these leeches (kind of curls with this little hole) made as decoration for the handle. And which you're pointing out is the only one that happens to look like a korambi... Maurice |
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22nd April 2013, 11:50 PM
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I have seen these with leeches - what is the significance behind the usage of leeches?
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23rd April 2013, 04:54 PM
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Sometimes we can see one ore more faces in a handle, of which the "leeches" representatives the limbs. (Though the limbs more often are represented with "bow's"). Between these "clear" figures the carver used other motifs to "fill the gaps" with no specific representation. I have the feeling most of the leeches have no significant meaning in general. Often the representation of the figures, mouth's, eyes, ears, limbs (etc.) are carved so stylistical, that's hard to find out what representatives what (in between other "no representative filled out gaps carvings"), an also these stylistical limbs could be looking like "leeches". In Charles handle I can't tell what the "leeches" representatives unfortunately because of it's stylistic representation. Maurice Last edited by Maurice; 23rd April 2013 at 05:19 PM. |
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23rd April 2013, 07:33 PM
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Text about the "leeches" used by the Bahau tribes by Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis, found "in Central Borneo II" page 364.
A motif, to fill up the empty gaps, is used largly in their swordhandles and - scabbards by the Bahaus, who call these "leeches". These leeches are perfect for the dajak to use filling these empty gaps, without harming the resemblence with the nature too much... Maurice |
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