Dear Detlef, Jose and PepperScull, thank you very much for your comments.
About the cleaning - I am inclined to preserve a certain "museum look" and clean the silver and wooden parts of it very minimaly. I just feel some discrepancy when I see an old hilt wrapping together with absolutely shining silver ferrules. It seems to me, this is the place, where the preservation of tribal art, where patina is very important, meets the keris culture.
Jose, does it mean, we see this kind of fretwork (Greneng) with holes only in Maguindanao?
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