Kayan mandau

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by ronpakis

hello aso,

the double spiral is pretty common in asia but also outside. when it is seen on a indonesian item and especially in silver my first guess is timor region. There are numerous different styles in that region but very very often with this type of spiral. Unfortunatly i dont have any references for this piece from books. good luck!

greetingd Ron

Hi Ron,

Thanks for your reply. I have looked in the book of Hein, but can,t find this exact motif.......

I hope by 'aso' you don,t mean the dutch description of it???

Kind regards,
Maurice