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27th April 2017, 07:19 AM | #1 |
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Old Tajung Keris(es?)
Good day all. I would like to share a few pics of old Tajong hilts and keris(es? is there such a word for plural of keris?)
These are part of a larger collection and have been kept for 20 - 30 years, gathered from various South Siam locations. Enjoy. |
27th April 2017, 09:36 PM | #2 |
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Impressive collection, thanks! I love the hilts especially.
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28th April 2017, 12:54 AM | #3 |
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These are nice Keris, I've a few here myself . Thanks for sharing.
Question, why the Bugis Pendokok? I am aware of a similar Patani pendokok from my own collections (but not found on Tajong), but I do not see this design amongst these? Perhaps you can tell us more about the design elements of each province that makes these keris so interesting? Perhaps some or all have a long well established regional provenance which reflects in the carvings? Gavin |
28th April 2017, 01:29 AM | #4 |
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Pretty impressive.
In Indonesian and Malay the plural of 'keris' is "keris-keris", or in the old form "keris2". But we're using English here so I reckon "kerises" is just fine. Last edited by A. G. Maisey; 28th April 2017 at 05:23 AM. |
28th April 2017, 04:11 PM | #5 |
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NICE collection !!
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A fine collection of keris tajong indeed. Never found the right one at the right price and since they are a bit outside my usual interest in keris other thing have taken priority. It does seem to me that the focus of interest for those who collect these is far more directed on the dress (specifically the hilts) than the blades themselves. |
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In the proper finish, they can look quite spectacular. Gavin |
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I agree with Gavin that in general the blades dressed as tajong are of generally good quality, unlike the middling to poor quality blades that are often found in coteng dress. Peninsular blades lack contrasting pamor, but they are typically well-forged, with good detail work. It's not uncommon to find a better quality carita blade in tajong dress. Thanks for posting these images, kyoba84, I'm deeply envious of your collection. |
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3rd May 2017, 10:59 AM | #11 |
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Thanks for this insight kayoba84.
Teming is not something I am familiar with, I've only ever seen the simple tajong cup form noted at pendokok in line with the name for other types from the Malay region. I hope a more learned Keris forum member can chime in about the name Teming. Gavin |
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The Pendokok of Tajong was a bipartite construction, consisting of Teming (one of Tajong kayoba84 show has a proper Teming) and a hilt cup. If we see a suassa Teming, we can be sure hilt cup was made of equally valuable material, and in most cases has been sold, pawned... or whatever. Somewhere on forum there is a picture of such hilt cup in a Malayan museum (or ACM?). A museum in Basel owns one complete ensemble, the best Tajong ever.
Becouse of the loss of hilt cup the Tajong hilt (with or without Teming) sits to low on Pesi. The second example kayoba84 shows us in his last post is quite typical hilt cup from Terengganu, yet with slightly elongated proportions. I doubt though, it was originally intended to be a hilt cup for this Tajong (which had a Teming in his past). The rest are Malayan Bugis style Pendokok, not intended for Tajong, and one specimen, which could be a younger version of Tajong hilt cup. Difficult to judge from the picture. Last edited by Gustav; 3rd May 2017 at 03:09 PM. |
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