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Mini tombaks?
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Looks like miniature Tombak.
Haven't seen them that small before. Michael |
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They are two tombaks . Sometimes small tombaks are put by indonesian people inside walking stik.
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Whatever they are, what do you think about the pamor? Quality?
Personally I don't like the carving on the dress. I may mount them in a shadow box frame with the smooth side of the dress out. ------------------------ Just got a private email from a man who really knows Indonesian pieces. They are not tombaks according to him. They are more rare, however. Let's see what other people think. Any other opinions? |
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"Just got a private email from a man who really knows Indonesian pieces."
Thanks Bill! ![]() ![]() Michael |
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About quality of dress is better to say nothing.
Tombaks seems rather new. One pamor is ganggeng kanyut (on the left), the other seems bendo segodo. |
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I agree about the dress. The best display would be the pieces alone. Second best mounting where the carving is on the inside and out of sight!. I think that the Javanese and worse yet,, the Madurese (is that a word?) make some awful tourist dress. "Dripping" is a good word here. According to a very good source who has asked me not to mention his name, these are Bedor --- arrowheads. Maybe I could get them mounted in arrow shafts. Personally I agree that they may be newer. Always hard to know. I like the quality and the uniqueness. Also nice staining work. |
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I thought they were arrow heads too, but ornamental arrow heads. Why would you spend so much time and effort in making arrow heads only to shoot them and it’s gone?
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I own two oldies of the same size. I did bought them as tombak. The dress is also old. If i look at your examples they look rather new with a good pamor.
The dress......... modern maduran dress. I also would prefer a less fancy dress. Would like to know what the opinion is of the knowledgeable gentleman about these tombaks. ![]() ![]() |
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An exemple of Yogya walking stick
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Sorry!
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Hai Bill,
What you've got are a special kind of tombak what so called as 'menur(?)'. I'm not quite sure about the name. The menur usually mounted on the top of umbrellas (not that ordinary umbrellas, but the one which used by Javanese noblemen) or on the center of the shield. Javanese shield usually covered with many spikes, but the bigger ones with pamor, the menur, placed on the center. The bedor is smaller than menur. It was really used on the war, but not to shot every enemies you encounter, certainly. You used the 'holy bedor' only at whom you consider as your 'invincible/invulnerable' enemy. The blade Javanese put on the 'walking stick' (called teken or tlempak) are ordinary tombak, but they choose the smaller one. Another very rare weapon is 'candrasa'. It was used as 'kancing gelung' or hairpin, something to keep your hair spun tight. (in the old days, almost every men had long hair). When enemy comes, candrasa used by throwing it toward the enemy. As you see, the javanese ancestor was very resourceful ![]() Last edited by Boedhi Adhitya; 18th October 2006 at 06:29 AM. |
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This is interesting!
How long are the bedor? How long are the menur? Thank you for your reply. |
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The menur's length would be roughly as long as your index finger or a little bit longer (or shorter, on your finger
![]() Please remember, I have never take any actual measurement on menur, bedor, the bow, or even the keris. all just 'roughtly', relying on my memory (which usually corrupted ![]() ![]() best regards, boedhi adhitya |
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This is good info. I have seen the parasols / umbrellas you mention.
Blade length on these is about 3.5 inches or 8.9 cm. How long are your fingers? ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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