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I know an on Maranao and he told me that most of the swords the Americans brought back during the war were mostly without any importance to them.
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Well, IMVHO the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Unless his usage of "most" means 51% (which is obviously true since there weren't enough Datu kris to satisfy all serving US soldiers
) the statement is certainly wrong as shown by the sheer number of very high quality kris in US (as well as Spanish) collections. However, it seems safe to assume that most of these "souvenirs" weren't given away voluntarily...
Regards,
Kai