Keris Kinatah on ´roids - impossible?

Gustav · 8th November 2012, 05:26 PM

This is a quite good thread about metals used in keris different than iron:

http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002097.html

A. G. Maisey · 8th November 2012, 09:13 PM

Bronze keris are known.

I have seen a photographed a bronze Keris Buda; I've read somewhere --- I had thought Quaritch Wales but I cannot find it in that --- that in Hindu blood sacrifice, bronze was preferred to iron, so this bronze KB was possibly a weapon used for sacrifice.

I also have a Modern Keris --- ie, current keris form --- in bronze.

I've never seen a true keris in any metal other than these two.

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8th November 2012, 05:26 PM	#1
Gustav Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,295	This is a quite good thread about metals used in keris different than iron: http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002097.html

8th November 2012, 09:13 PM	#2
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,085	Bronze keris are known. I have seen a photographed a bronze Keris Buda; I've read somewhere --- I had thought Quaritch Wales but I cannot find it in that --- that in Hindu blood sacrifice, bronze was preferred to iron, so this bronze KB was possibly a weapon used for sacrifice. I also have a Modern Keris --- ie, current keris form --- in bronze. I've never seen a true keris in any metal other than these two.