Executioner's Keris For Comment

[David]

Originally Posted by Newsteel

I doubt if that little dot of hole could hold enough cotton to clean the blood from the blade and cover the opening from the pierce as said.

Well, the hole runs deep into the hilt and cotton is both flexible and compressible/expandable so i think you could probable store enough cotton for the job in there. That doesn't support Lew's story as much as it doesn't deny it. This is still a hilt form that i have not seen for a panjang before, but i am sure that there is much that many of us have not seen before.
Is there some reason why your "very good source" can't be identified Lew?

[asomotif]

Dear Lew,

Indeed I would like to learn the origin of this theory (or historic fact).

That would make this keris one of the very very very few practically used excecution keris.
For some reason vereybody wants the eloborate hilts, either old/new/carved or even diecast.

Best regards,
Willem

[Lew]

The person who provided me with the information said it came from a very old Dutch book.


Lew