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					Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
					
				 
				 Because of this, I doubt that the keris which were in European public collections during WWII were stripped of anything. 
			
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 One might also ask why  a fair amount of old Bali sheaths seem to have been stripped of their pendoks....