Bengkulu, Bugis, Or Malaysian Keris????

Alam Shah · 5th February 2006, 02:49 AM

Hi Bladder,
Welcome to the forum.

Better (clearer & brighter) and bigger pictures of the blade could assist in finding more info on it.

Henk · 5th February 2006, 08:12 AM

Bladder, welcome to the forum.

This keris comes from Sumatra and is probably Bugis. Did you try to clean the brass? Maybe you should try carefully on a small spot on the backside of the pendok. Then you can find out if the pendok and ukiran are brass or maybe even silver. Once i cleaned a very dirty handle of a Sumatran parang sold to me as brass. It turned out to be a parang with a silver handle.

Alam Shah is right some better pictures and detailed ones of the kerisblade can tell us more. My first impulse is that your kerisblade is javanese. Not uncommon because javanese blades where highly apreciated in the Sumatran area.

5th February 2006, 02:49 AM	#1
Alam Shah Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,248	Better picture... Hi Bladder, Welcome to the forum. Better (clearer & brighter) and bigger pictures of the blade could assist in finding more info on it.

5th February 2006, 08:12 AM	#2
Henk Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,209	Bladder, welcome to the forum. This keris comes from Sumatra and is probably Bugis. Did you try to clean the brass? Maybe you should try carefully on a small spot on the backside of the pendok. Then you can find out if the pendok and ukiran are brass or maybe even silver. Once i cleaned a very dirty handle of a Sumatran parang sold to me as brass. It turned out to be a parang with a silver handle. Alam Shah is right some better pictures and detailed ones of the kerisblade can tell us more. My first impulse is that your kerisblade is javanese. Not uncommon because javanese blades where highly apreciated in the Sumatran area.