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The carving on my Dayak Mandau inspired me to research betel nut. Our results were published this week. This is the journal article with a picture of the sword.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0140907 This an editorial which is written more for the lay-person: http://www.omicsonline.org/open-acce...5-1000e130.pdf This is a press release from my University: https://ufhealth.org/news/2015/resea...ions-worldwide |
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Keris forum moderator
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On my reading list. Thanks Marcus!
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Great stuff Roger. Enjoyed reading your article.
I tried the preparation once in New Guinea (necessary to preserve "face" with the locals) and found it to be extremely bitter and unpleasant. I imagine it is an acquired taste, like most addictive substances. Among the Moro there are elaborate paraphernalia associated with the habit, most notably partitioned silver boxes of elaborate design. I had a small collection of these many years ago that were stolen when I was away on vacation--they left the swords, but took the silver boxes and related pieces! Go figure. Ian |
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A mandau in "PLOS ONE"!
:-) Not too shabby! Nice paper! Congratulations! |
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