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4th August 2024, 04:15 PM | #1 |
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Sorry Ian, i had missed your question. Here are a couple of examples. I can add more when i find them.
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6th August 2024, 11:05 PM | #2 |
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Here are examples of Indonesian kris sundang with asana-asang
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6th August 2024, 11:13 PM | #3 |
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Here is one of mine. It is ivory, swassa, and silver. Not much of a pamor in the blade. I believe this is from Tawi-Tawi.
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7th August 2024, 01:29 PM | #4 |
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8th August 2024, 06:05 AM | #5 |
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but Malay and Indonesian sundang are virtually the same.
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8th August 2024, 06:36 AM | #6 |
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I was referring to Melayu or other ethnicities/regions now considered part of Malaysia. Are you using "Malay" as a generic term for Malay people, defined broadly?
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9th August 2024, 02:51 AM | #7 |
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Now that I think of it, I guess I mistakenly was using it as a broader term. I guess I need to do a better job of definition.
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13th August 2024, 10:23 AM | #8 |
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Jose, I'm looking at the second of four examples you show of non-Moro kris. This one is dressed in a distinctly non-Moro fashion, which I think originates from somewhere in what is now Malaysia. The blade (from what I can see of it—there appears to be a lot of active rust) does have an "arrow head" feature that is highly correlated with Moro manufacture. So this looks like a Moro blade (probably from the Sulu Archipelago) that has been owned by a Malaysian.
Your first example might also be an old Sulu blade, redressed in a Malaysian fashion. The last two are completely non-Moro in origin. |
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