Uniquely Singapore Merlion Keris inspired by unduk-unduk

[David]

Originally Posted by Treeslicer

Neither is it totally uninteresting that, judging by one of the photos Alexis posted, some keris makers have entered the age of tool-and-die manufacturing, adapting Western techniques to their own cultural goals.

Of course, it poses me a question of whether I display such works among antique kerises of identifiable tangguh, or next to the Randalls and Pumas......

Frankly i believe that the use of tool-and-die manufacturing as seen in these three identical keris unduk-unduk that Alexis based his own re-design upon is more a matter of reaching commercial goals rather than cultural ones.

[Treeslicer]

Originally Posted by David

Frankly i believe that the use of tool-and-die manufacturing as seen in these three identical keris unduk-unduk that Alexis based his own re-design upon is more a matter of reaching commercial goals rather than cultural ones.

Culture being that part of human behavior which is learned, are you proposing that commerce is instinctual?

[David]

Humans are capable of learning quite a few things that i would not consider indicators of culture.

[Anthony G.]

Pardon me but is the steel used a recycled steel? Any iron and nickel involve?