Blades from Sarawak, Malaysia

[Dinggat]

Originally Posted by asomotif

Here is the front cover of this book with a nice podang in a faily recent picture.

Is it the normal mode of decoration to put the hairy tufts into the hollow pommel? All other Piso Podang I've seen so far had no such stuff in that pommel.

I'll try to get my hands on a copy of that book.