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Old 5th January 2007, 04:43 PM   #9
Flavio
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Originally Posted by Ian
Flavio:

I believe that is a striped wood called banati, which is used quite often for pommels on barung, kris, kampilan, etc. It's a very desirable and expensive wood among moro communities.

Ian.

Yes, i see now that the top piece of the pommel is a piece of ivory (is right? ) glued to the banati part, sorry
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