These keris-like objects with non-ferric blades are most definitely not keris.
They cannot be regarded as keris in any way.
They are a substitute for a keris.
If it is necessary to wear a keris as an item of dress, but one does not possess a keris, then very often a keris-like object is substituted for the keris. This object might have a silver blade, a pewter blade, a wooden blade, or as I once saw, a cardboard blade.
But it is not a keris.
Not in any way.
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