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

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Kino, thanks

Here's the continuation. Below are pics of Philippine gold hilts from the 10th to the 13th century. A little later, I'll post the comments of the southeast Asia expert from the Metropolitan Museum (NY) on these artifacts.

Kindly note that one of the hilts show the bird beak/ elephant trunk motif.

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In the same book (Philippine Ancestral Gold), the artifacts from Java and Philippines were compared from time to time, like below.

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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (our central bank) has a few gold hilts as well, from the same era.

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This was how they must have looked when carried.

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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.