The 10th to 15th century Visayan kris, & earlier artifacts

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I was blogging a related topic in my Facebook Page called Filhistory, and let me just post here the English translation of my slides there.

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Here's the 2nd slide:

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Here's the third slide. Please note that it was concluded by this expert from the Metropolitan Museum that Java and the Philippines were comparable, in terms of their excellence in goldworking tradition.

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Another observation from the same expert:

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Here's a second expert, expressing his opinion:

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I guess the conclusion in all these is that Philippines, like Java, were both quite competent in coming up with very good designs, in the olden days.

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And if anybody is interested in buying the books, the links are here.