Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th May 2022, 11:24 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
13th May 2022, 01:16 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th May 2022, 09:07 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
21st April 2022, 02:00 PM
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Replies: 16
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JustYS,
important is that at least since...
JustYS,
important is that at least since Arjunawijaya (14th cent.) a combination "singha barwang alayu" appears, is used in other works, and later becomes a Modern Javanese concept "singabarong"...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
21st April 2022, 10:23 AM
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Alan, thank you for disclosing the obvious and...
Alan, thank you for disclosing the obvious and regrettable shortcomings of Helen Ibbitson Jessup's translation of the title "Singhabarwang Penambahan Pakungwati" (where she apparently mixed up...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
20th April 2022, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 16
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
20th April 2022, 09:59 AM
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Replies: 16
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Barwang = Barong, both names are used, and I...
Barwang = Barong, both names are used, and I guess Barwang is/was the local spelling.
Helen Ibbitson Jessup gives the date for Singhabarwang as 1549, at another place 16th cent. Of course it could...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
19th April 2022, 10:15 AM
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Replies: 16
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
11th April 2022, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 22
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Alan, thank you for your remarks.
Looking at...
Alan, thank you for your remarks.
Looking at how Keris terminology has changed over last 40 years I can imagine, terminology used by people around 120 years ago could leave us really wondering...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2022, 02:42 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2022, 01:45 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2022, 01:17 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2022, 10:23 AM
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Replies: 22
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Alan, this type of Selut was common in Jogja...
Alan, this type of Selut was common in Jogja already around 1900 and most probably at least 20 years earlier. It is depicted in Groneman's plates on some of Karyodikromo's Keris, he calls the motif...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2022, 08:28 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
7th April 2022, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 96
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One more remark regarding Panataran carving.
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One more remark regarding Panataran carving.
On Pagar Ruyung Keris Gandhik doesn't protrude beyound the outline of blade, which is typical for "old style" Jalak Budho. Accordingly the sheath has...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
7th April 2022, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 96
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Up till now I know of three depictions of a...
Up till now I know of three depictions of a tapering Gandar with a scroll at the end - Panataran, Kertolo statue in Museum Pusat and the photograph by Kinsbergen of the Pusakas of Pagar Ruyung. Pagar...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
6th April 2022, 01:09 PM
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Replies: 96
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
16th February 2022, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 23
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Alan, thank you very much for your response.
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Alan, thank you very much for your response.
I also noticed the unusual blade surface, and one of possibilities I thought of also was wootz. So I just asked you the questions I had about this...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
15th February 2022, 10:06 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
15th February 2022, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,996
Alan, I have thought about the possibility of...
Alan, I have thought about the possibility of wootz, but:
doesn`t the grain in this picture behave a bit more like a normal material grain above the Poyuhan? Also in the full length pictures the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
14th February 2022, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 23
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
13th February 2022, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 23
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd February 2022, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 21
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I find interesting, that this recently carved...
I find interesting, that this recently carved figure, which perhaps could be identified as Rarung, holds a piece of fabric in each hand.
(In Barong play Rarung has a red magic cloth, which makes her...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
25th December 2021, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 96
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Hello Amuk Murugul,
of course this Keris did...
Hello Amuk Murugul,
of course this Keris did have at least one stopover in workshops run by portuguese in ther trading facilities or colonies, where the stones in the hilt were in set in a...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
24th December 2021, 09:00 PM
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Replies: 96
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