An Honest Pair of Barongs to Share

[drac2k]

I just got lucky and picked up these pair of barongs. Good honest pre-WW2 examples. It is getting quite hard to pick up any Philippine weapons reasonably lately unless one gets fortunate or a fluke.

[David]

A nice pair. Shame they have no sheaths, but unlike some other SEA edged weapons you can probably make a reasonably acceptable and accurate sheath for a Barung without fairly basic woodworking skills and materials.

[Battara]

Both are junggayan.

One seems to be made of old narra wood with a horn top.

The other is also narra wood but the junggayan tail appears to be broken off.

Both are nice, and you are right - getting that one with the horn pommel intact is getting harder and harder.

Congratulations!

[drac2k]

Thanks all for your kind & informative comments.