ARE THESE ALL SANGKITS ?

[Royston]

Sajen,

Thanks for the compliments

Maurice ,

Thanks for the comments and links.

I should have looked more carefully at the style of hilt. You are correct it does resemble the latok hilt.

The links are interesting but there is still no name for this type that I can see.

regards
Royston

[VVV]

Royston,

Sorry if my comment was confusing in the old thread.
I later bought that parang, so I have handled it, and it is a Parang Pedang.
But there seems to be tribal variations of the Parang Pedang, as among other popular Borneo parang,
and yours is clearly a Murut version.
Very nice collection of rare Murut swords btw.

Michael

[DaveF]

Here's another karit ilang, aka Sangkit, for reference purposes. Another thread showing these blades is here.