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Originally Posted by ganjawulung
Yes, Hana Chu,
I will measure it, with pleasure. But please, give me some more time to do it. Thank you, for your kind attention. Actually, it is not easy to get patrems, good old patrems -- even in Java.
Ganjawulung
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Yes, old patrems do seem to be a rarity. Perhaps that is part of why i am drawn to them...but also, i think, it is because the keris is in general culturally considered a male possession, so i am intrigued by the ones that were created specifically for women. Certainly it would seem logical that because there are far less of these women's keris around that they weren't considered an essential item for them in the way they are for men. So does anybody know who these women were who owned keris. It doesn't seem that there were meant for just any woman. Was it reserved for a certain societial class of women or would, for instance, the farmers wife have one? Very little seems to have been written about just how these blades fit into Indonesian culture.
