Actually David, I believe I'm saying pretty much the same as you.
The Bugis originate in South Sulawesi.
They went all over the place.
One of the places they went to was Eastern Lombok, they settled there.
After a time Bugis keris made in Lombok sometimes acquired a style that was not seen in keris from other places.
In the case of this particular keris, I am of the opinion that it comes from Lombok, but has Bugis features, as well as other features that are the result of influences other than Bugis.
So it is a Lombok keris with Bugis influence.
There are probably a number of ways in which this idea could be expressed.
To move sideways a little bit. Wherever the Bugis people went, they made keris, but those keris are not identical with the Bugis keris that were made in South Sulawesi. In the book "Senjata Pusaka Bugis" we can find Bugis keris with stylistic variation that points to varying geographic locations of origin for those keris.
I had a quick flick through this book before I wrote post #60, I could not find any keris with similar deep kruwingan such as this keris has, but there are numerous examples of the indented gandhik, the style that in Solo in the 1980's was regarded by the keris elites as evidence of a keris from the Eastern Islands. At that time in Solo most people seemed to think that the world beyond Bali was remote and savage, so Lombok was lumped in with all the other Eastern Islands.
In "Senjata Pusaka Bugis" this gandhik style that was thought of as "Eastern Islands" by the Solo people, is identified as South Sulawesi.
Then I went to "Keris Lombok", and in this book we can see many examples of extreme topographic sculpting.
There are any number of combinations of words that can be used to classify this keris, but I have chosen "Lombok with Bugis influence". Anybody who does not like this combination of words is perfectly at liberty to choose their own.
|