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Old 8th June 2020, 02:40 PM   #1
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Default Keris hilts with raised curved backbones

Two keris hilts, Sumatra, probably both Palembang.

The first, mainly of natural formation?, possibly an abstract Garuda, with raised and curved backbone, hunched shoulders, large featureless head poking forward, with a blunt nose, Palembang-style carved decoration on the base at the front, marine? ivory. 7.2 cm.

The second of wood, mainly of natural formation, the head with lumps all over it, with raised and curved backbone. A rather sinister and forbidding figure. Hilt and selut (which is fixed firmly to the hilt), 8.5 cm.

Does the curved raised backbone indicate something?

I would love to see similar hilts from others on the Forum, and of course to learn more about this 'type'.
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Old 8th June 2020, 03:15 PM   #2
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Very nice!
I think Palembang too.
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Could the second be a Veiled Durga style?
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Old 8th June 2020, 06:38 PM   #4
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(imho) the second one is a type called: GANA-hilt
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(imho) the second one is a type called: GANA-hilt
I think that both can get called gana!
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Old 8th June 2020, 08:02 PM   #6
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Sirek, good call. If the wood hilt is Gana wouldn't the marine ivory hilt be Gana as well? Couldn't Gana be an abstract representation of an idea the carver is trying to convey, or conversely is the Gana style intended to be a void that the mind of the viewer fills with meaning, or option 3 is it that the viewer through an abstract form perceives what the object itself is or wishes itself to be?
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Thanks Sajen you answered my question while I typed it
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