Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Two small Coteng

VVV · 9th July 2011, 03:13 AM

In this thread DA Henkel wrote about another small keris:

"Kelantan or Terengganu dating to around 1920 - 1940... In these days smallish keris for "formal" attire were popular and even today in Kota Bahru they call them keris selit because the fit just nicely into the waist of your sarong."

Here is first a small silver coteng I found that is so much smaller than my two earlier coteng and the two coteng I have seen at the late Karsten Sejr Jensen's house. It's about 2/3 in size (30 cm/11 3/4") compared to my other silver coteng (42 cm/16 5/8").

And then a few weeks later I bought this small wooden coteng from Artzi that is just as small (29 cm/11 1/2").

What do you think, are they older versions or are they keris selit according to the quote above?

Michael

9th July 2011, 03:13 AM	#1
VVV Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,637	Two small Coteng - keris selit or are they older? In this thread DA Henkel wrote about another small keris: "Kelantan or Terengganu dating to around 1920 - 1940... In these days smallish keris for "formal" attire were popular and even today in Kota Bahru they call them keris selit because the fit just nicely into the waist of your sarong." Here is first a small silver coteng I found that is so much smaller than my two earlier coteng and the two coteng I have seen at the late Karsten Sejr Jensen's house. It's about 2/3 in size (30 cm/11 3/4") compared to my other silver coteng (42 cm/16 5/8"). And then a few weeks later I bought this small wooden coteng from Artzi that is just as small (29 cm/11 1/2"). What do you think, are they older versions or are they keris selit according to the quote above? Michael Attached Images