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26th May 2022, 03:19 PM | #1 |
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Bugis keris
Herewith I show you a nice Bugis blade and after warangan this special pamor showed up. Who can enlight me about it.
The luk are well balanced and I like the last slow waving luk especially. Last pic is before cleaning. |
26th May 2022, 04:14 PM | #2 |
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I am not able to identify this pamor pattern, and I did not find any similar one in the book Senjata Pusaka Bugis.
IMO this blade does not originate from Sulawesi nor Sumatra/ Malaysia but rather from Sumbawa or Lombok because of the following features: . Lines on the front side of the ganja. . Twin lambe gajah . Protruding kembang kacang (not recessed) . Long, straight, and thin sogokan . Peculiar greneng style on the wadidang I have a similar blade but with 15 waves and a more rustic pamor pattern (see pic). Regards |
26th May 2022, 05:51 PM | #3 |
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Thank you Jean. Your blade looks similar. These pics are more clear in respect to the pamor.
Fitting is not perfect. Protruding is not the problem but it is sloping. |
27th May 2022, 12:59 PM | #4 |
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Thank you Paul. After further checking, the pamor pattern of your blade may be Tebbabunga (equivalent to Lar Gangsir in Java), but it is not very clear.
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31st May 2022, 05:44 PM | #5 |
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What happened to the kerisforum? It used to be a environment of kerislovers with a vivid atmosphere. Commited forumites with different background who joined a topic. So it was a joy and pleasures to read, learn and enjoy it. Now you often have to ask twice to trigger anybody to give an opinion. At present it are always the same guys who put energy in it.To bad.
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31st May 2022, 07:35 PM | #6 | |
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http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18667 If you google pamor Tebba Bunga you will find other examples. I saw quite a few on Badik and it does bear some resemblance to yours. Personally my own focus is more on Jawa/Bali/Madura/Sumatra. So i am not really much help when it comes to Bugis blades. I know Alan tends not to comment much on blades outside of that nexus of keris making as well. I do believe you are correct that at least some old time regulars are not participating as much here as they once did. I know that there are at least a couple of Facebook pages that have drawn folks away, but frankly discussion on those pages rarely gets in depth and it is mostly show and tell and people trying to sell stuff. I have personally not contributed anything here mostly because this is not my area of concentration and Jean seemed to have at least an idea of the answer to your question about pamor. Frankly i don't see that you have really asked any other questions about this keris. So i'm not sure what else you are looking for and surely you do realize that this forum will rarely, if ever, be able to answer all of your questions about any particular keris anyway. But if you would like more input i will add that beyond the more exotic pamor this seems like a fairly average Bugis blade to me, probably from the first half of the 20th century, maybe a little older. The over all form does seem fairly balanced as you noted, but i don't particularly care for the work on the various features, particularly the sloppy carving of the sogokan, which i find rather jarring and don't really quite understand. Possibly carving a sogokan was an afterthought on this keris. |
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