It seems to me that we have been seeing a number of Philippine examples posted which blur the lines between different styles and cultural areas lately, all of which seem to be 20th. Century. I suspect that this is one of the effects of modernization of transportation and communications, of better education, and of increasing sociopolitical cohesion. I recently saw a YouTube video of currently active traditional handicraft bolo makers on Bohol producing a variety of styles including local partial-hilt chisel-ground designs, Luzon-style peened-tang flower-bud horn-hilted itaks, and modern-looking riveted scale through-tang machetes, all from the same smiths at the same forge. Perhaps our traditional pigeonholes are not only becoming obsolete, but may have been compromised by commerce for some time now.
