Obscure knife--Kota "kris"

[David]

Originally Posted by Ian

Thank you for your comment too. I inserted "kris" in the title because that was a quote from the description of the museum, but the style of this knife is clearly different from the Indonesian keris, as you rightly point out.

A museum should know better than to call such a blade like this a "kris", especially the American Museum of Natural History. The kris/keris is a rather specific blade form and i get tired of seeing just any flamboyant blade labelled as a such.