Two Bali Hilt ID

[HughChen]

Originally Posted by milandro

The figure may very well not be Batara Bayu since , as I noted, he doesn't have to vessel (some people call it a mirror but it isn't) in his hands.


This is important to derive hits characteristics.

I have seen people describing similar hilts with depictions of Bhima calling it Bayu too.



The wooden hilts in your possession are the one on the left a Bugis hilt and the one on the right a Sumatran (Palembang?) hilt often referred to as a veiled Durga (although there is much debate on whether this is truly a representation of Durga or not)

Unfortunately, I don't hold the second hilt in any kind esteem at all. In my mind it is a kind of hilt found on krises for the tourist market.

Thank you Milandro. The second hilt is ugly to me, that's why I presumed it's for some local rural purpose like ceremony or so when I purchased it. The reason was that tourists tend to buy beautiful hilts. But I didn't know just guessed.