Kai, I've noted all your comments, it seems that I have not been particularly clear with my own comments.
I have no issue at all with whatever you or anybody else wishes to call this dagger, I have not offered a different name for it, and I will not offer one, as I have already said, I'll agree with any two people who wish to call it whatever they will. I have no stake in this, I really don't care what this dagger is called.
But the fact remains:- if it is to be called a badik, or perhaps somebody might like to call it a kawali, I have never seen a badik/kawali that looks like this dagger.
That is all I am saying.
No more, no less.
Everybody else can draw lines of similarity if they wish, I do not wish. But I'm not prepared to debate the matter. I'm offering an observation, just that.
However, there is one small matter that I must disagree with.
The badik/kawali does not & did not have the same function for the Bugis people as does & did the keris for the people of Jawa & Bali.
It has & had a similar function.
Am I splitting hairs?
No, not at all, the word "same" does mean the same as the word "similar".
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