Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Two West(?) Javaneses Keris with Sumatra style hilt

Gustav · 17th July 2021, 08:20 PM

Do the atribution to Lampung for the hilts from #1 go back to Jensen, or was this done already before him?

One from Tradescant collection has an european (?) replacement instead of Mendak, the Nr. 2884 from Dresden, which perhaps also goes back to 17th cent., has a Javanese Mendak.

17th July 2021, 08:20 PM	#7
Gustav Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,197	Do the atribution to Lampung for the hilts from #1 go back to Jensen, or was this done already before him? One from Tradescant collection has an european (?) replacement instead of Mendak, the Nr. 2884 from Dresden, which perhaps also goes back to 17th cent., has a Javanese Mendak.