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Originally Posted by erikscollectables
Could you go a bit further into the details of the Raksasa, how to recognise this specific type?
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Erik, what do you mean by "this specific type"? As Alan has pointed out, the people he knows in Jawa and Bali are not likely to use the term raksasa. I think that there are probably many hilts that western collectors label as such that perhaps where not intended to represent a raksasa. For instance i often see many of the vegetal figural hilts categorized as such when i am not convinced that they are really meant to be ogres or demons. Sometimes we see obvious wayang figures called raksasa. Often i think our obsession to categorize leads us to sometimes force a square peg into a round hole.
