Period Pics Of Keris In Hand or Being Worn

[CharlesS]

Gentlemen,

I am putting together a short presentation for a university library group here in my town, and would like to add some period, or pre-1960 photos of people wearing or holding keris. Most of what I have seen on line via image search is not really what I am looking for.

If you have some old photos you don't mind my sharing, please share them here, or email to: kaiserchuck@prodigy.net

Thanks so much in advance!

Charles

[Laowang]

The Tropenmuseum in the Netherlands has a remarkable collection of pre-WW II photographs of Balinese and Javanese wearing keris in the traditional manner, available through their website. Link here:

http://collectie.tropenmuseum.nl/def...254.1467571078

Search using "kris" as the search term, and click on the "photos" tab.

[Laowang]

A couple examples.

[CharlesS]

Thanks Laowang!!

This are exactly the type of photos I am looking for.

Thanks again!

[David]

I know i can find more for you Charles, but here are a few more for now.

[kai]

Hello Charles,

Have you screened the Amsterdam collection and got enough suitable pics?

Quite a few of these pics were staged, so you have to evaluate them carefully. Pics from gatherings are more likely to be real than some of those done for European/colonial customers (postcards).

Regards,
Kai

[David]

Originally Posted by kai

Quite a few of these pics were staged, so you have to evaluate them carefully. Pics from gatherings are more likely to be real than some of those done for European/colonial customers (postcards).

That may be true Kai as with the image of the two Bali warriors i posted, however i would think that that would not be the case with portraits of royalty in terms of the way they would wear or hold their keris. So even though the image of Gusti Ngura K'tut Djilantik is a portrait sitting i think you can feel confident that the photographer didn't position the keris in the photo for his own aesthetic purposes.