When is a javanese sword called a golok?

[Maurice]

Hello friends,

I bought this old golok/javanese sword recently.

I wonder when it is called a golok or when it's called a javanese sword?
When I look at Zonnevelds book at page 134 because of the handle and shape of the blade it is just called a sword of West Java (a sword without a specific name which is found all over the archipelago, in this case West Java).

But I wonder if it is not a golok because javanese friends would call it a golok, although it has no bird's head or wayang figure handle (as the goloks depicted in Zonnevelds book page 48, 49).

All the javanese people I know would call it definitly a golok.

So I hope you can help me understand why this is called a golok, or just not called a golok.




Maurice