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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Have been living in several places in Indonesia (mostly in Borneo and Sumatra), mostly remote places, or at least i have to go to very remote places before entering the forest (i am... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() So sorry Alan, my bad. English is not my mother tongue. That's what i meant to cut off. The principle on "pangentas" in this context is resurrection ~ lift it up to the next level ;) ;) :o |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The SAMIDRI falls to ambang, working tools. It is not SAMIDRI PIN but SAMIDRI PIR. Pir referring to PER => spring steel. It means the blade made of spring steel. Spring steel is valued to be "good... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Pangentas has root from "tas", meaning broken off. There is Tiuk (tiyuk) Pangentas => knife for cutting the rope that tied the corpse in the Ngaben ritual. Blakas falls in to tiyuk/tiuk category. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Most likely Sundanese (people of West Java) Pisau Raut (Carving knife) |
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