Forum: Swap Forum
10th April 2007, 04:56 PM
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Forum: Swap Forum
4th April 2007, 11:53 PM
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Forum: Swap Forum
4th April 2007, 10:46 AM
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Timor sword for sale and some other
Hi,
To make some cash flow and to invest in new machinery for restorework I will sell my swords that are outside my Borneo collection so the Timorese and Celebes swords are leaving. :shrug:
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th January 2007, 04:12 PM
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facegrip mandaus and Tromp.
Hi,
I would like to know if there are collectors who has also mandau's with a face on the grip.
on the pics below two very old examples one is in my own collection and the other sadly not (yet?) :D...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th January 2007, 06:34 AM
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Hi Ben,
I don't think its a good idea to...
Hi Ben,
I don't think its a good idea to take the drawings in Blink's work as a reference,the drawings are not very fine (see how at the drawings of the kerisses for example).
the uncarved...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th January 2007, 07:28 PM
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Rolls or Lada?
Its still possible to buy good old mandaus for a reasonable price.
Its like buying a car there's a lot of space between Lada or Rolls.
not everyone can pay the high prices for the swords listed...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th January 2007, 01:06 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th January 2007, 01:03 PM
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Hi Guys,
here's my one and only hornbill...
Hi Guys,
here's my one and only hornbill piece
see that the intension firtsly was to carve the side also with scroll work.
I think they first wanted to make an earring but probably they changed...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th December 2006, 11:42 PM
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mandaublade laminated? local melted ore?
On one of my mandau's the blade on some places shows a pamorlike structure.I didn't see at others that and don't know how to call it.
Maybe anyone of you have a mandau with this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th December 2006, 09:25 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th December 2006, 11:41 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th December 2006, 11:58 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th December 2006, 09:28 PM
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Hi Michael,
nice work!
about the parang...
Hi Michael,
nice work!
about the parang Ginah's, do you have the book " Sprit of wood" the art of malay woodcarving? a very nice work about woodcarving but also about malay kerisses and good...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th December 2006, 09:19 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th December 2006, 11:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th December 2006, 09:01 AM
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Hi Ben,
here's the Jimpul I bought this...
Hi Ben,
here's the Jimpul I bought this week.
didn't she tell you that it had a scabbard?
note the very old brass hook and the ols piece of bone on the belt.
Arjan.
www.thehornbill.com
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th December 2006, 12:29 AM
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Hi Michael,
its not just an idea,during my...
Hi Michael,
its not just an idea,during my vistit in leiden I saw many "faced" mandaugrips in the collection who where collected before 1900.
the old one seems to have bigger noses,faces with...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th December 2006, 11:26 PM
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Mandau,Jimpul or Nyabor?
In my collection I have a kind of mandau with Nyabor like blade.
I don't know how to call it,the blade has some of the style of a Nyabor with some strange crowits,the handle isn't like a parang...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th December 2006, 10:49 PM
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Tromps handles
Hi Michael,
Some of Tromp's handles surely has faces but indeed not on all
I have seen them in Leiden and some of them are in the typical Koetei style with face.I have the idea that the face on the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th December 2006, 10:41 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th November 2006, 06:18 PM
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Hi Ben,
one ( 16-284 ) is a very early...
Hi Ben,
one ( 16-284 ) is a very early collected piece came in to the museum around 1860 but was from the journey of Salomon Muller who visited Borneo in 1836.
Salomon visited the south of Borneo...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2006, 06:13 PM
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Hi Michael,
Bier gives as tribe with this...
Hi Michael,
Bier gives as tribe with this bayu the "Kantuk" tribe from upriver Kapuas.
It must be a tribe related to the kajan as you see on the style of the hilt.
what I think is that the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2006, 09:50 AM
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Hi Ben,
will do in the next weeks I will...
Hi Ben,
will do in the next weeks I will visit the archives of leiden and will look for that.
between my articles I found this about a bayu wich was collected by Bier during the expedition with...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2006, 07:20 PM
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Hi Ben,
this type of blade is quite common...
Hi Ben,
this type of blade is quite common in Banjar (South Borneo)
I've also seen a mandau with this type of blade and I have a sword from Banjar with this type of blade.
pics will come later.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2006, 07:13 PM
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