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Gustav · 29th July 2009, 10:00 PM

You can find another very interesting "Cekah Redut" (more then eleven notches) in Zonneveld's "Traditional weapons ..." on page 67. It is also polychrome - blue (black?), red and gold(?). This polychrome design looks very fine, somewehere "japanese"

These carvings on one side (five (?) lines). I have seen them only on cecekahan, never bondolan. May be, it is a symbol, bound to a certain group of people, the selected warriors with "Pemating"?

I allways thought, they are another primitive form of a face, but they are on the other side of hilt, and only on cecekahan (?).

29th July 2009, 10:00 PM	#18
Gustav Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,196	You can find another very interesting "Cekah Redut" (more then eleven notches) in Zonneveld's "Traditional weapons ..." on page 67. It is also polychrome - blue (black?), red and gold(?). This polychrome design looks very fine, somewehere "japanese" These carvings on one side (five (?) lines). I have seen them only on cecekahan, never bondolan. May be, it is a symbol, bound to a certain group of people, the selected warriors with "Pemating"? I allways thought, they are another primitive form of a face, but they are on the other side of hilt, and only on cecekahan (?). Last edited by Gustav; 29th July 2009 at 11:34 PM.