A Borneo Oddity

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Originally Posted by Indianajones

It does seem that Murut handle ferrules and Bidayuh ferrules are often quite alike.

No,
quite often the Bidayuh do not have ferrules at all, sometimes they have quite plain.
However, now and then they have the neighboring Melanau people, famous for their silver skills, do their ferrules for them. The examples with the silver ferrules in this thread (Dajak's Latok and my silver sangkit) seems to be Melanau. Actually the latok from Dajak might even be Melanau all together, which means nothing Bidayuh at all. Usually the Melanau latok sadap are much larger than the Bidayuh and have a couple of other tells on how to know which is which (being outside the focus of this thread).

Michael

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