Charles,
Your heavy, fat-bellied sword looks quite old to me. That style of hilt is a junggayan form from the 19th C, and fat-bellied barung seemed to be more common then. The forward weighting of the blade and the slightly upturned tip might suggest a Palawano or Zamboanga origin. It's a very interesting sword.
I have heard a theory that the barung may have derived originally from a fat-bellied chopper, like this one, possibly of Chinese origin.
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