Exceptional Philippine weapons auctioned in Spain

[Ian]

Hi Xas,

Just amazing quality and diversity of pieces. There are a few Indonesian items in there as well, and perhaps a Malay piece or two. I suppose it would be too much to ask whether there is any indication of when these items were collected?

Ian.

[xasterix]

Glad you liked it gents! The mixing-in of Indomalay items are, in my opinion, an indicator of the human and artifact movements between PH and other locations during certain eras. As a conservative guess, I believe that most of the items (except probably for the Krises and kampilans, some of which I believe are older) were late Spanish colonial era up to American era

[Sajen]

Surprisingly,the blades are in a very good state, clean and etched.

[Ian]

Originally Posted by xasterix

... The mixing-in of Indomalay items are, in my opinion, an indicator of the human and artifact movements between PH and other locations during certain eras.

Makes sense and there has been significant trade at times between PH and its neighbors.

As a conservative guess, I believe that most of the items (except probably for the Krises and kampilans, some of which I believe are older) were late Spanish colonial era up to American era

I agree. Many of these pieces seem to have been collected during the 19th C. However, several appear to be older, notably some of the barung, kris, and kampilan. I have posted a comment on the kris that I think is the oldest example on these panoplies in this thread.