Recent ebay kris

kai · 21st April 2010, 08:09 PM

Welcome to the active members guild of the forum!

Yes, IMHO there is a good possibility that this may be from one of the Lumad peoples: The non-traditional hilt, work at the gangya area, as well as the flat tang tapering into a longish round tip doesn't look like traditional Moro work. OTOH, I guess that a sound cleaning, polishing and etching will reveal this to lack a seperate gangya and from the craftmanship I believe this blade is post-WW2 which would also allow for other non-traditional origins. (I'm pretty sure this isn't an early blade.)

There's still a chance that the blade is laminated and I'd suggest to check it out. Please give it a try and post some more pics!

Regards,
Kai

Nirghosa · 21st April 2010, 11:59 PM

Many thanks for all the suggestions. Just to clarify, I did not end up as the lucky owner. I had hoped to get it as I have an attraction for the forlorn and odd. Plus as a practitioner the blade's form spoke to me, it is appealing. At a minimum I would have made a trainer copy to play with.
And all the additonal links was very interesting reading! It does seem to have many of the aspects of Lumad as well as Bagobo

On the positive, I did receive my new Kampilan today and will be posting pics soon. It is quite a nice piece and I noticed inlays that I had not noticed before.

21st April 2010, 08:09 PM	#1
kai Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,255	Welcome to the active members guild of the forum! Yes, IMHO there is a good possibility that this may be from one of the Lumad peoples: The non-traditional hilt, work at the gangya area, as well as the flat tang tapering into a longish round tip doesn't look like traditional Moro work. OTOH, I guess that a sound cleaning, polishing and etching will reveal this to lack a seperate gangya and from the craftmanship I believe this blade is post-WW2 which would also allow for other non-traditional origins. (I'm pretty sure this isn't an early blade.) There's still a chance that the blade is laminated and I'd suggest to check it out. Please give it a try and post some more pics! Regards, Kai

21st April 2010, 11:59 PM	#2
Nirghosa Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Michigan Posts: 119	Many thanks for all the suggestions. Just to clarify, I did not end up as the lucky owner. I had hoped to get it as I have an attraction for the forlorn and odd. Plus as a practitioner the blade's form spoke to me, it is appealing. At a minimum I would have made a trainer copy to play with. And all the additonal links was very interesting reading! It does seem to have many of the aspects of Lumad as well as Bagobo On the positive, I did receive my new Kampilan today and will be posting pics soon. It is quite a nice piece and I noticed inlays that I had not noticed before.