Ian,
Thanks for the links and your input.
Dajak's Jimpul picture illustrates very well what the (single) hook usually looks like (if there is any).
All brass hilts on Naburs is not that uncommon.
What's most unusual with this sword is the scabbard, as I wrote earlier.
I doubt it's a regional variation but it could of course be a later marriage, as you suggested, and if so matched probably outside Borneo?
Doesn't there exist any kind of sword, outside Indonesia/Malaysia/Brunei, that resembles a Nabur?
Michael
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