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Old 11th April 2010, 04:59 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Marcokeris
This ancestor Aso motif can be seen in a lot of book about Borneo tribes art .. all written in english language with many pics and also accurate description about meaning and symbolism (for example: hornbill and dragon, borneo and beyond, the eloquent dead,.... ).
IMO to put a keris on this kind of board is the same to put a little ET in crib...but of course is only my personal taste
Thanks for the examples Marco. I am not too concerned about the cross-culture between keris and board. I wouldn't put a Borneo hilt on a Madura Keris, or for that matter, even a Jawa hilt on one, but as a method to display this keris i am just fine with. If i had a baby ET i would probaby put it in a crib too.
Still i am hoping that we might be able to identify the actual tribe this came from through the particular style of this carving. Maybe i should move this over to the main forum since some of our Dayak experts might not have seen this over here on the keris forum.
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