Odd handle for a Kampilan?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by viklund_p

Been in the family since 1930 and it was said to have been old already then when my Grandmother's brother picked it up in the Philipines

(why it is different from any other handles I've seen for Kampilans on the forum)


Per

Perhaps this sword should be referred to as a Klewang from Timor. (Zonneveld's Traditional Weapons of Indonesian Archipelago, fig 272, pg. 71)
If this sword made it's way up to the Philippines, it may explain the abaca on hilt & sheath. Trade between the islands is endless & if it passed through the hands of one of the lumad tribes it seems plausible to use abaca rather then the traditional use of hair, the Moro's would use.