Very old Visayan kris

[Gustav]

Ian,

thank you for your well tempered response - what you say in this last post resonates with me, because my viewpoint on Keris in early european collections is similar - the earliest firm provenance for a certain specimen is from 1607, but there are blades, which could be considerably older (there are records of early collections starting with 1512) and possibly from the late Majapahit period. Saying that was and perhaps still is regarded as some kind of blasphemy.

As I wrote, I simply don't see all this in the Kris blade of this thread, and I won't repeat it oncemore.

Regarding "inoficial" information about objects in museums, even very good ones - I must say, that the curators always (in my experience) have only the information which is found in their database (sometimes with significant errors) and not a iota more.

Regarding the artifact from Bohol and its relationship to Keris, we have been through that already, here a quite good thread about it:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=Bohol+Keris

Regards,
Gustav