Thank you VANDOO for your comment. That makes me feela lot better about my balatos again !
. Incidentally today i visited a special exhibition on "the evolution of weapons and world humanity" at the Malaysian National museum in Kuala Lumpur . It has a good selection of edged weapons particularly Krises and one sole balato on display.
Happy to note that the exhibit also had wooden ball as you can see in the pics below. So now I don't feel too bad not having tiger teeth or wild boar tusks on my balatos.